Del Norte Public Library

Three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet academy compete for the status of prima ballerina, with each willing to sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.

Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. From ballet's origins in the...

The dawning of gay liberation as recorded by the unofficial stenographer of Espresso Buono, the New York hangout for the movement in the sixties. An autobiographical novel by the author of the stage play, Kennedy's Children.

Two friends get ready and then dance with their ballet class at a performance where they are the stars of the show.

Singer celebrates the joy of movement and the community of dance with a spirited collection of poems. When read aloud, the rhythm of each dance is reflected in the meter of the poem. The CD features Singer reading the poems set to music for each dance.