Download or read book The Classic Ballet written by Muriel Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 800 masterful drawings by Carlus Dyer demonstrate the proper body position, balance point, movement, and attitude of each position and step in the basic classical repertoire. As Balanchine points out in his preface, the illustrations are more accurate than photographs could possibly be because they have been corrected and recorrected until they approximate the ideal.