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The digital download is available on July 1. If you pre-ordered your copy, please login to your account and check your downloads for an updated file.
Each download includes:
1 - Digital Download of the book (64 pages, over 40 illustrations)
1 - 8.5”x11” digital coloring book (printable)
1 - 8.5”x11” digital download ballet history poster (Printable)
One of the biggest complaints among a certain generation of ballet teachers is that students lack knowledge of ballet's history, context, and origins. While I won't disagree with that generation, we are living in a time where the consumption of knowledge is now instant. I, too, found myself wondering why more young people aren't familiar with ballet history and ballet lore. Then I remembered most people might be uncomfortable talking about racism, religion, social status, geopolitics, scandals, misogyny, immigration, and women's rights. And then you have me, someone who isn't shy about discussing all of that with my students, and we have what we like to call 'The University of David days.'
In these educational classes, the timelines and inventor series were introduced. I illustrated all these things to show my kids how fascinating ballet history is.
Last season, in the Ballet Planner, I included all of my timelines for ballet, and it seemed that everyone wanted more. So, I started working on the timelines to be more in-depth, and it suddenly turned into a quite large collection of information. Here is the first installment in Ballet History.
The digital download is available on July 1. If you pre-ordered your copy, please login to your account and check your downloads for an updated file.
Each download includes:
1 - Digital Download of the book (64 pages, over 40 illustrations)
1 - 8.5”x11” digital coloring book (printable)
1 - 8.5”x11” digital download ballet history poster (Printable)
One of the biggest complaints among a certain generation of ballet teachers is that students lack knowledge of ballet's history, context, and origins. While I won't disagree with that generation, we are living in a time where the consumption of knowledge is now instant. I, too, found myself wondering why more young people aren't familiar with ballet history and ballet lore. Then I remembered most people might be uncomfortable talking about racism, religion, social status, geopolitics, scandals, misogyny, immigration, and women's rights. And then you have me, someone who isn't shy about discussing all of that with my students, and we have what we like to call 'The University of David days.'
In these educational classes, the timelines and inventor series were introduced. I illustrated all these things to show my kids how fascinating ballet history is.
Last season, in the Ballet Planner, I included all of my timelines for ballet, and it seemed that everyone wanted more. So, I started working on the timelines to be more in-depth, and it suddenly turned into a quite large collection of information. Here is the first installment in Ballet History.