Once A Dancer An Autobiography
Once A Dancer An Autobiography by Allegra Kent, published by Macmillan on April 15, 1998, is a detailed account of the author’s life as one of George Balanchine’s most notable ballerinas. This first edition spans 352 pages and is presented in English. The book chronicles Kent’s journey from joining the New York City Ballet at the age of fifteen to becoming a key figure in Balanchine’s works, including roles in Episodes and The Seven Deadly Sins, while also highlighting her personal challenges and triumphs.
Readers will find a rich narrative that intertwines Kent’s professional achievements in the performing arts with her complex personal life. The autobiography delves into her experiences as a dancer and the sacrifices she made, including stepping away from her career to raise her children. With themes of dance, biography, and the intricacies of life in the spotlight, this book provides an insightful look into the world of ballet and the balance between personal and professional aspirations.
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One of the greatest of George Balanchine’s ballerinas, Allegra Kent joined the New York City Ballet at the age of fifteen and only two years later inspired Balanchine’s “The Unanswered Question” (from Ivesiana). Beautiful, sensuous, mysterious, she quickly became an essential Balanchine dancer. He created central roles for her in Episodes, Bugaku, The Seven Deadly Sins, Stars and Stripes, and the Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, as well as reviving La Sonnambula for her. An immense favorite of audiences here and abroad, she had a particularly spectacular success on the company’s famous Russian tour in 1962. But the story of her personal life is at least as dramatic as the story of her rise to fame. Raised haphazardly by a mostly absent father and an all-too-present mother, she married the first man she ever dated, the celebrated (and complicated) photographer Bert Stern. And she suspended her career three times to have children, no matter what the cost to her work.
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