A Very Young Dancer - Krementz, Jill Review & Synopsis

 Synopsis

A ten-year-old student at the School of American Ballet in New York describes her classes and the preparation for and performance of her role in the ballet "The Nutcracker."

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A Very Young Rider

The story of a 10-year-old girl passionately caught up in the world of horses.

The story of a 10-year-old girl passionately caught up in the world of horses."

Ballet Class

Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of McClure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. One hundred years later, ballet is everywhere. There are ballet companies large and small across the United States; ballet is commonly featured in film, television, literature, and on social media; professional ballet dancers are spokespeople for all kinds of products; nail polish companies market colors like "Ballet Slippers" and "Prima Ballerina;" and, most importantly, millions of American children have taken ballet class. Beginning with the arrival of Russian dancers like Anna Pavlova, who first toured the United States on the eve of World War I, Ballet Class: An American History explores the growth of ballet from an ancillary part of nineteenth-century musical theater, opera, and vaudeville to the quintessential extracurricular activity it is today, pursued by countless children nationwide and an integral part of twentieth-century American childhood across borders of gender, class, race, and sexuality. A social history, Ballet Class takes a new approach to the very popular subject of ballet and helps ground an art form often perceived to be elite in the experiences of regular, everyday people who spent time in barre-lined studios across the United States. Drawing on a wide variety of materials, including children's books, memoirs by professional dancers and choreographers, pedagogy manuals, and dance periodicals, in addition to archival collections and oral histories, this pathbreaking study provides a deeply-researched national perspective on the history and significance of recreational ballet class in the United States and its influence on many facets of children's lives, including gender norms, consumerism, body image, children's literature, extracurricular activities, and popular culture.

Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People (New York: Harper Trophy, 1990). Kalman, Bobbie and Petrina Gentile. Ballet School (New York: Crabtree, 1994). Krementz , Jill . A Very Young Dancer (New York: Knopf, 1976)."

A Very Young Circus Flyer

A nine-year-old trapeze artist tells about his life with a circus.

A nine-year-old trapeze artist tells about his life with a circus."

Ballerina, My Story

FAIRY TALES CAN COME TRUE From the time she was eight, Darci Kistler knew she wanted to be a ballerina. At thirteen she was on her own in New York City, attending one of the most famous ballet schools in the world. At seventeen she became the youngest principal ballertina in the history of the New York City Ballet. How did Darci make her dream come true? In her own words, she tells about her amazing career, from her first pink tutu to her starring role in The Nutcracker ballet. Here is the fairy tale story of what it's really like to become a ballerina. A Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Book Illustrated with photographs

Books for Young Readers Berger, Gilda. Magic Slippers: Stories from the Ballet. Illustrated by Vera Rosenberry. ... Krementz , Jill . A Very Young Dancer . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Rosenberg, Jane. Dance Me a Story: Twelve Tales ..."

Nutcracker Nation

The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada every Christmas season. In this entertainingly informative book, Jennifer Fisher offers new insights into the Nutcracker phenomenon, examining it as a dance scholar and critic, a former participant, an observer of popular culture, and an interviewer of those who dance, present, and watch the beloved ballet. Fisher traces The Nutcracker’s history from its St. Petersburg premiere in 1892 through its emigration to North America in the mid-twentieth century to the many productions of recent years. She notes that after it was choreographed by another Russian immigrant to the New World, George Balanchine, the ballet began to thrive and variegate: Hawaiians added hula, Canadians added hockey, Mark Morris set it in the swinging sixties, and Donald Byrd placed it in Harlem. The dance world underestimates The Nutcracker at its peril, Fisher suggests, because the ballet is one of its most powerfully resonant traditions. After starting life as a Russian ballet based on a German tale about a little girl’s imagination, The Nutcracker has become a way for Americans to tell a story about their communal values and themselves.

The challenges and rewards of life backstage are also the subject of a popular coffee table book called A Very Young Dancer , by photographer Jill Krementz . It's about Stephanie, a tenyear old School of American Ballet student who played ..."

To Dance

A beautifully refreshed and expanded special edition of the Sibert Honor–winning graphic memoir about the dreams and realities of becoming a ballerina. Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six—and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance classes at the School of American Ballet, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet while working with ballet legend George Balanchine. Part family history, part backstage drama, this beautifully updated graphic memoir—which features a refreshed design and a brand-new scrapbook of Siena’s mementoes—is an original, firsthand look a young dancer’s beginnings.

atheneum - ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 1230 Avenue ... 2019 by Siena Siegel Illustrations copyright © 2006, 2019 by Mark Siegel A Very Young Dancer by Jill Krementz is ..."

A Very Young Musician

Ten-year-old Josh Broder describes many of the activities in his life that are connected to his study of the trumpet.

ALSO BY JILL KREMENTZ THE FACE OF SOUTH VIETNAM ( with text by Dean Brelis ) SWEET PEA - A BLACK GIRL GROWING UP IN THE RURAL SOUTH WORDS AND THEIR MASTERS ( with text by Israel Shenker ) THE WRITER'S IMAGE A VERY YOUNG DANCER A VERY ..."

A Very Young Gymnast

A year in the life of an aspiring, deeply committed ten-year-old gymnast is chronicled in photographs showing her at practice, in competitions, and at a summer work camp

Follows one year in the life of a ten year-old girl who is training to become a champion gymnast."

Celebrating Every Learner

Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom. Gardner identified eight different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Celebrating Every Learner describes the characteristics of each type of intelligence and follows up with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that teachers can use to incorporate MI in their pre-K through 6 classrooms. Offers a treasury of easily implemented activities for engaging all students' multiple intelligences, from the New City School, a leading elementary school at the forefront of MI education Provides ready-to-use lesson plans that teachers can use to incorporate MI in any elementary classroom Includes valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom Hoerr is the author of a bi-monthly column for Educational Leadership as well as the editor of the "Intelligence Connections" e-newsletter

MacMillan, 1976. Jay, Allen. The Bicycle Man. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Kalon, Kalan.Jump, Frog, Jump! Greenwillow, 1981. Krementz , Jill . How It Feels to Live with a Physical Disability. Simon & Schuster, 1992. ———. A Very Young Dancer ."

A Very Young Skier

Text and photographs introduce a nine-year-old ski enthusiast from Sun Valley, Idaho.

Also by Jill Krementz HOW IT FEELS WHEN PARENTS DIVORCE THE FACE OF SOUTH VIETNAM ( with text by Dean Brelis ) HOW ... THE PLAYGROUND A VERY YOUNG DANCER JACK GOES TO THE BEACH A VERY YOUNG RIDER TARYN GOES TO THE DENTIST A VERY YOUNG ..."

Teaching Values of Being Human

This book provides an opportunity to teach the exquisiteness of being human to our children. Teaching Values of Being Human is a curriculum filled with conversations, lessons and activities that link education, the mind and the heart. It is packed with ideas to empower student agency and voice. Paving the way for practitioners to develop an emotionally responsive environment where young human beings can grow, this practical book encourages children to look inside themselves, discover their identity, find happiness and equip them with skills they can use effectively in the future. The book covers topics such as: Emotional capacities, self-awareness and self-identity. Relationships and healthy communication. Emotional intelligence, resilience and perseverance. The importance of human connection and its benefits. Ideal for teachers in all education settings, along with support staff, psychologists, counsellors and allied health professionals, who wish to aid the emotional development and well-being of children under their care.

Here is a popular book selection themed around perseverance for adolescents: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah A Very Young Dancer by Jill Krementz ..."

Kurt Vonnegut Remembered

A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of 'Slaughterhouse-Five' Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), who began his writing career working for popular magazines, held both literary aspirations and an attraction to genre fiction. His conspicuous refusal to respect literary boundaries was part of what made him a countercultural icon in the 1960s and 1970s. Vonnegut's personal life was marked in large part by public success and private turmoil. Two turbulent marriages, his sudden adoption of his late sister's four children (and the equally sudden removal of one of those children), and a mid-eighties suicide attempt all signaled the extent of Vonnegut's inner troubles. Yet, he was a generous friend to many, maintaining close correspondences throughout his life. Kurt Vonnegut Remembered gathers reminiscences--by those who knew him intimately, and from those met him only once--that span Vonnegut's entire life. Among the anecdotes in this collection are remembrances from his immediate family, reflections from his comrades in World War II, and tributes from writers he worked with in Iowa City and from those who knew him when he was young. Editor Jim O'Loughlin offers biographical notes on Vonnegut's relationship with each of these figures. Since Vonnegut's death, much has been written on his life and work, but this new volume offers a more generous view of his life, particularly his last years. In O'Loughlin's introduction to the volume, he argues that we can locate and understand Vonnegut's best self through his public persona, and that in his performance as the kind and humane figure that many of the speakers here knew him as, Vonnegut became a better person than he ever felt himself to be.

 Jill Krementz (1940–) is a photographer and author with more than thirty books to her credit, including A Very Young Dancer (1976) and How It Feels to Be Adopted (1982). She and Vonnegut were married in 1979, briefly separated in 1991, ..."

Daily Discoveries for DECEMBER (ENHANCED eBook)

This creative book in the popular Daily Discoveries series contains another month full of special days for students to celebrate in the classroom. They include: Reindeer Mania Day, Winter Weather Day, Human Rights Day, It's a Small World Day, and of course Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve Day. Use the activities in your regular curriculum for a shot of adrenalin in language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, etc. Your students will eagerly look forward to each new day when you give them something to celebrate! Also included are reproducible patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of correlated books and bulletin board ideas.

... Construct a semantic web with facts your students know (or would like to know) about ballet or dance in general. ... by Deborah Hautzig A Very Young Dancer by Jill Krementz Language Experience • Read the story to your students, then."

Avid Reader

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Graham, Robert Caro, Nora Ephron, and Bill Clinton--not to mention Bruno Bettelheim and Miss Piggy. In Avid Reader, Gottlieb writes with wit and candor about succeeding William Shawn as the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine. Sixty years after joining Simon and Schuster, Gottlieb is still at it--editing, anthologizing, and, to his surprise, writing. But this account of a life founded upon reading is about more than the arc of a singular career--one that also includes a lifelong involvement with the world of dance. It's about transcendent friendships and collaborations, "elective affinities" and family, psychoanalysis and Bakelite purses, the alchemical relationship between writer and editor, the glory days of publishing, and--always--the sheer exhilaration of work. Photograph of Bob Gottlieb © by Jill Krementz

... from my personal list of dance books to the Audubon nature guides (tens of millions sold); from Jill Krementz's charming and highly successful A Very Young . . . series, beginning with A Very Young Dancer (one hundred thousand ..."

Mean Baby

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth. "Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer." —Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed and Founder of Together Rising The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention. Although Selma went on to become a celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite shake the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that there was a great mystery at the heart of her life. She often felt like her arms might be on fire, a sensation not unlike electric shocks, and she secretly drank to escape. Over the course of this beautiful and, at times, devasting memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence, passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood, and, finally, the surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. In a voice that is powerfully original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma Blair’s Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.

I pulled out one of the mildewed books from the shelf , A Very Young Dancer by Jill Krementz . It was my favorite . In a series of black - and - white photographs , a girl demonstrated each ballet position : first , second , third ..."

Illusions of Camelot

From the artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet comes an unforgettable memoir about one artist's journey from boyhood to ballet. Peter's story starts in the pastoral and privileged town of Bedford, New York: a rare enclave 40 miles north of New York City where private schools, country clubs, and families hold their own rules and secrets. Within the town, views of race, morality, and sexuality are unspoken yet evident. Meanwhile, at home, Peter and his family are left to grapple with his father's alcoholism and untimely death. As a young boy finding his way, Peter soon turns to ballet. Ultimately his passion becomes a beacon, leading him to work at the New York City Ballet as a teenager, living on his own while discovering the pitfalls and pleasures Manhattan has to offer. Throughout Peter's deeply personal work, you'll meet Hattie Lindsay, Peter's caregiver, whose love for Peter matches her disdain for Henry, the family dog. You'll step onto the club house floor during ballroom dancing lessons in Bedford, into the studios of the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center, and onto the stage in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker as Peter performs the title role of the Nutcracker Prince. For all the laughter these stories offer, gravity is everywhere. Moments by Balanchine's hospital bedside, or in the AIDS-ravaged ward at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital as a loved one's life passes away are told with painful honesty and raw hurt. Peter's journey takes us to the start of a storied career as a dancer with the New York City Ballet and leaves us with insights into the unique path of an artist and individual shaped by environment, circumstance, and family.

I was also introduced to my partner , Stephanie Selby , who would play the role of Clara , and to a photographer named Jill Krementz , who was working on a book about Stephanie called A Very Young Dancer . A great over- bearing man ..."

Young People's Books in Series

Provides annotated entries for series appealing to readers in grades 3-12

 VERY YOUNG KREMENTZ , Jill A Very Young Circus Flyer . Knopf , 1979 A Very Young Dancer . ... Knopf , 1990 Like her How It Feels series , this one spotlights Krementz's outstanding photos as a vehicle for communicating the various ..."

How It Feels When Parents Divorce

In this immensely moving book, nineteen boys and girls, from seven to sixteen years old and from highly diverse backgrounds, share with us their deepest feelings about their parents' divorce. By listening to them, all children of divorced parents can find constructive ways to help themselves through this difficult time. And they will learn that their own shock and anger, confusion and pain, have been experienced by others and are normal and appropriate. These boys and girls speak with extraordinary honesty and tolerance, and with a remarkable absence of rationalization, illusion, or attempt to justify their own often-trying behavior in response to their situations. Their stories are immediate and convincing, and their generosity in confiding their feelings should provide comfort to children and parents alike.

 Jill Krementz . Also by Jill Krcmcmz The Face of South Vretnarn (WITH TEXT BY DEAN anus) Sweet Pea—A Blark Girl Grounng Up in the Rural South Word: and Their Mu1ter: (WITH TEXT av lsnu. 5|-cnmum) A Very Young Dancer A Very Young Rider A ..."

Dance

Brief biographies of five women who have made important contributions to the field of dance, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Twyla Tharp, and Gelsey Kirkland. Includes information about 10 other outstanding female dancers.

Based on personal interviews , this book looks at the behind- the - scenes life of a dancer . Krementz , Jill . A Very Young Dancer . Knopf , 1976 . Ten - year - old Stephanie tells us in her own words , with photos by Jill Krementz ..."

The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of family and identity. Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gilman worshiped her brilliant, adoring, and mercurial father, the writer, theater critic, and Yale School of Drama professor Richard Gilman. But when Priscilla was ten years old, her mother, renowned literary agent Lynn Nesbit, abruptly announced that she was ending the marriage. The resulting cascade of disturbing revelations—about her parents’ hollow marriage, her father’s double life and tortured sexual identity—fundamentally changed Priscilla’s perception of her father, as she attempted to protect him from the depression that had long shadowed him. A wrenching story about what it means to be the daughter of a demanding parent, a revelatory window into the impact of divorce, and a searching reflection on the nature of art and criticism, The Critic’s Daughter is an unflinching account of loss and grief—and a radiant testament of forgiveness and love.

Claire and I loved books about child performers, from family friend Jill Krementz's A Very Young series ( Dancer , Gymnast, Skater, Actress) to Noel Streatfeild's Shoes books. And from a young age, I got solos in music class, at camp, ..."

The International Who's Who of Women 2002

Over 5,500 detailed biographies of the most eminent, talented and distinguished women in the world today.

 KREMENTZ , Jill ; American photographer and writer ; b 19 Feb 1940 , New York ; d of Walter and Virginia ( née Hyde ) ... A Very Young Dancer 1976 , A Very Young Rider 1977 , A Very Young Gymnast 1978 , A Very Young Circus Flyer 1979 ..."

Dancing

This is a survey of the world of dance from ballet to tap.

A Guide for the Dancer You Can be Ellen Jacob ... at the Lincoln Center Library and Museum for the Performing Arts , which has these materials available in a specially designed environment for young people . ... Krementz , Jill . A Very ..."