The rules:

1) Your topic, obviously, needs to be about ballet. However, that doesn't mean it has to be a musical. It can be any film that has ballet in it, such as Waterloo Bridge where the female protagonist is a ballerina. You also have the option of talking about filmed performances of actual ballets.

And guess what? Since we're such nice hosts, we've decided that ice-skating and Esther Williams's water ballets qualify for this blogathon, so you have even more options! Our only stipulation is that if you do choose Ms. Williams or ice-skating, please keep a perspective on ballet in mind. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask us!

2) There is no time period restriction. Your topic can be from 1940 or it can be from 2017 -- whatever you want!

3) Because we'd like to have a varied, widespread celebration of ballet, we will only allow two people to cover the same topic. So, for example, if The Red Shoes has been taken by two bloggers, it's no longer available for you to grab.

Pick a topic, grab one of our fabulous banners, and we'll see you in August!