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Pierre Rameau's "Le Maitre a Danser" is the standard work on the technique of 18th century dancing. It was first published in Paris in 1725, and bore the printed recommendation of the celebrated dancer and maitre de ballet Louis Pecour.

This title completes the theory relating to movements on the floor, supporting on various body parts and transitions between such supports. It also gives a full account of revolutions of the body and their recording in Labanotation and offers many reading examples from choreography.

This title investigates how to describe types of objects and various ways in which they can be held or manipulated with the hands or other parts of the body.

This issue covers hand movements ranging from broad general statements for the whole hand to detailed descriptions, that necessitate defining use of a particular surface or edge of a specific joint or segment.

"Center of Weight" explores the possibilities of recording in Labanotation movements in which placement of body weight is of particular importance: balancing, shifting weight, leaning and falling. It includes many examples from modern dance technique.

In 1860 the great Danish choreographer and ballet-master, August Bournonville, wrote a series of eight public letters, which were published simultaneously in France and Turin. Bournonville's letters, featured in this volume, express his views on many aspects of ballet in his time.

The dancer and choreographer Jean-George Noverre's 'Letters on Dancing and Ballets' were first published in Stuttgart in 1760. They set forth his ideas for the reform of ballet, ideas which were considered revolutionary in their day and indeed anticipated changes to be carried out more than a century later.

"School of Classical Dance" is the official textbook of the Vaganova School and takes the reader from the basic concepts of the syllabus to the most complicated exercises taught at the end of the eight-year course.