Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the first black star on the world stage, from London to Vienna, Alexandria to Buenos Aires. After World War II, and her time in the French Resistance,...

"Masumi is a 16-year old attending a small ballet school in a remote part of Japan. When she gains admission to a famous school, she finally has the chance to realize her dreams. There, due to a lack of proper training, she is the weakest student in the group. Can she endure the hardship, the struggles and the fierce competition in the world of ballet?"

"A few weeks before Christmas, Julie, Lucie, and Alia receive a letter from Prune, a friend who invites them to London, England. But it's not really for a vacation ; they're going to participate in an audition to get the leading roles in a musical. The competition will be tough, especially since their arch-rival Carla has also come to audition."--Cover [p. 4].

"Tatara Fujita has barely stepped into the world of dancesport, but now finds himself literally pushed onto the stage of competitive dance as an emergency stand-in for the suddenly-absent dancer Hyodo. On one hand, this means he'll get to dance with the beautiful Shizuka--but on the other, both Shizuka and Hyodo's chances of winning the Mikasanomiya Cup are in Tatara's hands! Will his waltz be enough?"--

Julie, Lucy, and Alia decide to take an African folk dance class, in addition to their ballet and modern dance classes, but find their extracurricular activities getting in the way at school and at home and must figure out how to balance them if they want to continue to dance.

"Feckless high school student Tatara Fujita wants to be good at something - anything. Unfortunately, he's about as average as a slouchy teen can be. The local bullies know this, and make it a habit to hit him up for cash, but all that changes when the debonair Kaname Sengoku sends them packing. Sengoku's not the neighborhood watch, though. He's a professional ballroom dancer. And once Tatara Fujita gets pulled into the world of the ballroom, his life...

Best friends Julie, Lucy, and Alia all share a love of dance, a "frenemy" named Carla, and an interest in an attractive hip-hop dance instructor named KT, and as the girls prepare for the ballet "Sleeping Beauty," they would love to have KT play the prince.

Dancers Julie, Alta, and Lucie collaborate to showcase the historical backdrop of jazz on a dance tour organize by their dance teacher.

When Julie, Lucy, and Alia sign up for rock the new style brings a lot of new lessons, not the least of which is that cute boys don't necessarily make good dance partners. And the girls can't forget their ballet skills, not when Miss Anne has the whole troupe performing The Nutcracker . . . in Russia! Carla, jealous as always, is intent on ruining the show; the girls may need some help from an unexpected place to pull it off this time!

Can the girls out-dance Carla to the Nationals, or will distractions undermine everything they've worked so hard for? Julie, Lucy and Alia are best friends and share the same passion: dance. Piling on the classes, they're training hard to get into the National Ballet Competition in Paris. One main rival is right in their very school: archenemy Carla. These three will have to balance competition, new boyfriends, and classes without letting things get...