Yuma Public Library

When the prima ballerina trips and falls during a performance of the Royal Ballet, Biff the dog finally gets his chance to prove that he is a ballet dancer.

"With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents’ death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara’s husband and once their mother’s prized student. Marie, warm and...

Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet....

Fifteen-year-old Walter McCloud dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer, but lack of talent, combined with the death of his brother, caused him to take a different path in life which ultimately leads him to a place of healing and happiness.

Sixteen-year-old Mia travels to Paris to attend an elite ballerina program, and along the way meets a cute French boy, finds an unexpected rival, and discovers the truth behind a family legend.

Paris, 1878. After their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, fourteen-year-old Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opera, where for a scant salary of seventy francs a month she will be trained to enter the famous Ballet. Her older sister,...

Fictionalizes the life of legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, from his childhood in World War II Russia to his wild days in 1980s New York, dramatizing his early poverty, his sexuality, his fame, and his perfectionism.

A young girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina takes the stage to perform roles in classic ballets.

Angelina's friends at her new school, Camembert Academy, enjoy different types of dance and Angelina is the only one who wants to study ballet.