The sequencing is organized in 12 segments by title of the ballets which include: Les Noces, Les Cent Baisers, Symphonie Fantastique, Le Tricorne, Boutique Fantasque, Cotillion, Choreartium, Septieme Symphonie, Le Lac Des Cycnes, Les Sylphides, and Concurrence.
As Livingston remarks: Part of the peculiar quality of Ballet resides in the fact that Brodovitch reflexively approached photographs not as integral images, but as material for layout and design. ... he often let photographs on facing pages run into the book's gutter so they would appear as a single horizontal continuum. With this and other devices, it becomes clear that Brodovitch believed that the integrity of the photographic frame was easily sacrificed to the different frame of the book page. The book set the context, taking the images into an entirely different realm from that of photographic printmaking. It can hardly be accidental that this book, which paved the way for so many developments in photography and graphic design after it, was conceived in an environment that already had a clearly defined structure. ...the finite musical and choreographic elements.

It is believed that no more than a few hundred copies were run, most of which were presented by Brodovitch to friends and colleagues and helped establish Ballet as a collector's item early on.(The New York School Photographs, pp. 290-91).