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| Dance Anatomy by Jacqui Green Haas |
- This book is perfect for dancers that want to improve their flexibility and muscle tone. There are over 200 colored photographs that accompany 82 exercises to help dancers. Injury prevention and proper breathing techniques are among the many topics Haas details in this book.
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| Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal by Toni Bentley |
- Follow Toni Bentley through her difficult journey of growing up in the New York City Ballet. This autobiography is described as, "perhaps the closest that most of us will ever come to knowing what it feels like to be a dancer, on stage and off." This story is fitting as we head into the cold winter months.
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| Bunheads by Sophie Flack |
- This fictional story follows nineteen-year-old Hannah Ward as she faces the difficult decision of committing her entire life to dance or striking out on her own in the real world. A decision that many teenage dancers can relate to as dance classes begin conflicting with social activities. This is a beautiful and realistic story about what dancers sacrifice to make it in the dance world.
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| Dancing for Degas by Kathryn Wagner |
- Inspired by the Impressionist artist, Edgar Degas, this work of historical fiction follows a dancer named Alexandrie in the City of Lights. She goes to the city to join the Paris Opera Ballet in hopes of making enough money to support her farming family. In the meantime she finds herself falling for talented Degas. Will she risk everything to be the star of the company?
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| We B*Girlz by Nika Kramer |
- Take a step away from the world of ballet with this collection of photographs and anecdotes about the girls who were apart of the B-boy movement. This book tells the true story of "Rokafella from the Bronx," who currently is a professional dancer, as one of the founding B-Girlz. Stunning photography makes this book extremely interesting.
