Do you want to inspire your child to take ballet lessons, to open the beauty of ballet steps to him? Or maybe he is already sick of dancing and wants to learn as much as possible about it? Then this book is for you.She will tell the story of ballet from pagan dances and performances in imperial palaces to modern dance. You will be able to follow with your child the change and complication of this art through the watercolor illustrations by Anastasia Batishcheva.The book explains the theory and rules of ballet in steps and diagrams. She will talk about what is important in the performance and what the theater consists of, and also raise the curtain and show what happens behind the scene: scenery, costumes, script, music.You and your child can try to do it yourself several pas according to the schemes. You will learn the secrets of the skill of several famous dancers: Ulyana Lopatkina, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and others.The book will teach you not only to distinguish fouette from plie, but to see beauty in every movement of artists, to be a true connoisseur of the art of ballet.< /p>