by Allegra KentWrite The First Customer Review Balanchine ballerina Allegra Kent tells her singular story with the same originality, freshness, and grace she has brought to the stage. The book should be required reading for dancers everywhere for years to come. of photos. Read More Balanchine ballerina Allegra Kent tells her singular story with the same originality, freshness, and grace she has brought to the stage. The book should be required reading for dancers everywhere for years to come. of photos. Read Less Trade paperback, Very Good 2009, University Press of Florida ISBN-13: 9780813034409 See Item Details ▾ | Tracey's Book Shelf, LLC BEST Rocky Mount, NC, USA | $17.95 $22.95 Add this copy of Once a Dancer...: an Autobiography to  • Once a Dancer...: An AutobiographyAllegra Kent. St. Martin's Press, $26.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-312-15051-8The dancing of ballerina Kent has been described as complex, even ""demonic."" In this memoir, Kent explains the tensions and conflicts behind her legendary performances with Balanchine's New York City Ballet. Kent, born in 1937, joined the company at age 15 and quickly became one of the favorites of ""Mr. B,"" who choreographed several dances for her, including ""The Unanswered Question"" (from Ivesiana). But Kent soon began a strange, career-long pattern of successes followed by self-imposed exiles from dance. The reasons behind her disappearances were usually bizarre: a botched plastic surgery undertaken despite her Christian Science beliefs; a disastrous marriage to photographer Bert Stern, promoted by Kent's mother to thwart any sexual involvement between Kent and Mr. B.; a willful decision to have three babies at the peak of her dancing fame; periods of overeating and • ALLEGRA KENT studied ballet with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci in Los Angeles. She joined the NYCB as an apprentice in 1952, and soon thereafter George Balanchine created a principal role for her in the "Unanswered Question" section of Ivesiana. In 1957 she was promoted to principal dancer, performing a varied repertory of ballets. In addition to Ivesiana, Balanchine created roles for her in Stars and Stripes, The sju Deadly Sins, Episodes, Bugaku, and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. She was also in the original casts of Robbins's Dances at a samling and Dumbarton Oaks. For the GBF Video Archives she has coached leading roles in Bugaku, La Sonnambula, Stars and Stripes, Ivesiana and Episodes with Bart Cook. Kent fryst vatten the author of Allegra Kent's vatten Beauty Book (1976), her autobiography Once a Dancer... (1997), and her most recent children’s book Grand Jeté and Me (2021). MIRA NADON, a NYCB principal, began her ballet training in Montclair, Cali
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