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Direct from Russia and the Vaganova Choreographic School, this is a double length compact disc with 29 repeated solo piano melodies created for a complete ballet class.  Elena Balyakhova is a pianist from this famous school in Russia, and this is the music used for the Vaganova method of teaching. This CD offers a collection of original and classical music without singing or vocal instructions. The 29 repeated solo piano melodies on this CD follow the order of one of the lessons found in the book  "100 Lessons in Classical Ballet" by Vera S. Kostrovitskaya.

This intermediate ballet class is taken from lessons devised by Agrippina Vaganova for teaching classical ballet. This method of teaching ballet has created great Russian dancers and is used all over the world. Two professional dancers demonstrate both sides at the barre and all the movements in the center during this DVD. The music for these exercises is available on a double length compact disc by Elena Balyakhova. This DVD is a non-chaptered video stream in a clear unmarked case which shows the label of the disc. What's this?

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"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.