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The Best of Ballet
New 5th Volume Ballet Class CD and Video
from Dmitri Roudnev, former Bolshoi artist, director Ballet Intensive from Moscow
Dmitri Roudnev Ballet School of Chicago
with Elena Balyakhova, Accompanist of the Boston Ballet School and Company and Kirov Theater

CD Features:

• Excellent tempos and accents for training, a signature of Roudnev's musical direction
• Suitable for many levels: beginning through advanced, professional, and suitable for pointe work

This fifth volume of ballet class music by Dmitri Roudnev offers the exact tempos and rhythms for each exercise at the Barre and center as taught at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow. Elena Balyakhova studied music and presently accompanies ballet classes in Russia where she is always in great demand. The thirty unrepeated bands are arranged for a complete ballet class with music for several grand allegros and small jumps. The 55 minute compact disc contains music by Drigo, Chopin, and Rossini along with original compositions by Elena Balyakhova.
56 min.

• Precise barre exercises and exciting grande allegro
• Unique training by Roudnev based on his Bolshoi Ballet School and Company experiences
• Class exercises demonstrated by Joffrey principal, Taryn Kaschock

This full length DVD contains 27 chapters and offers a complete ballet class with precise barre and center exercises with exciting grand allegro combinations. The class is demonstrated by Taryn Kaschok, a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet. Dmitri Roudnev bases his unique training method and technique on his education as a student at the famed Bolshoi Ballet School and on his training experiences as a young dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet. Mr. Roudnev carefully plans his lesson with emphasis on building clean technique and development of beautiful long muscles, hallmarks of the geat Russian Method training. The music on this video is contained on the compact disc by the same title and features Roudnev’s signature musical direction for strong accents and tempos to achieve the best results in student training.