For teachers, company directors, and advanced dancers, White provides a guide that covers advanced principles meant to complement his more elementary volume Teaching Classical Ballet (1996). He discusses specific teaching issues relating to turning, jumping, and balancing; outlines a class construction format for intermediate and advanced students; and addresses aspects of partnering, pantomime, musicality, the value of rules, the discipline of learning, and the importance of the mental side to studying dance. Methods are based on those of the Russian teacher Agrippina Vaganova, and he concludes with a brief account of her career.