Title: Viva Allegra
Product review: I first saw Allegra Kent perform with the New York City Ballet when I was five years old, and it was in large part her performance that turned me into an instant ballet fan. The beautiful Ms. Kent--whose autobiography is an entertaining and sometimes poignant account of life in the competitive, back breaking world of professional dance--was one of George Balanchine's celebrated muses, and one of the most brilliant ballerinas of the 1950s and '60s. She could be alternately lyrical and funny, frightening and sensuous, ethereal and earthy; her pliant, stretchy body and dramatic flair made her a fascinating purveyor of the Balanchine style. Her life story, complete with the ups and downs of family life, motherhood, a rocky marriage, and the intense pressure of working with some of the groundbreaking dancers of mid-20th-century America, is presented in unsparing detail...making it an engrossing read for all balletophiles.
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