Anatomy and Ballet: A Handbook for Teachers of Ballet

publisher: Theatre Arts Books, new york] Foreword was by S. L. Higgs, and Dame Ninette de Valois contributed the intro. With 43 x-rays and 51 dawings. A highly illuminating study of the mechanisms of the dance. From an engineering point of view one can only marvel at the capacity of the human form to take on strange and certainly occasionally painful positions.