"100 Lessons in Classical Ballet"
by Vera S. Kostrovitskaya
translated by Oleg Briansky
The 400 page softcover book
contains one hundred lessons for an eight year
course of study in ballet technique. The lesson
used in the video and CD is from the fourth year
of study where pointe work is being introduced.
Each exercise is fully described and counted in
the book with many photos of dancers and teaches
giving them corrections. This book is considered
the indispensable textbook of the Leningrad school
of dancing.