Internationally acclaimed photographer David Hamilton invites the viewer to share delicate moments in ballet in this lush coffee table book and CD collection. His images of young ballet dancers capture the essence of grace at rest and poetry in motion. These tender photographic impressions are accompanied by musical masterpieces created especially for the art form. La Danse includes unpublished pictures of the great Rudolf Nureyev, the twentieth century's greatest male ballet dancer. Included are 4 CDs with the best of romantic ballet classics, including Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and more, performed under the direction of Gunther Herbig, Herbert Kegel, and Willi Boskovsky.