ELENA TCHERNICHOVA has spent her life in dance in Russia, the United States, and Europe. She lives in St. Petersburg. JOEL LOBENTHAL is associate editor of the quarterly Ballet Review, and author of Tallulah! The Life and Times of a Leading Lady. JOSEPH BRODSKY was a Russian-American poet and essayist, former US Poet Laureate, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1996.
"A book as illuminating as it is interesting, revelatory about how
ballet works, and fascinating as an account of a life devoted to an
art--and to survival."--Robert Gottlieb "New York Review of
Books"
"Rudolf Nureyev, Natasha Makarova, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey
Kirkland, George Balanchine--these are gods as far as I'm
concerned, and we see them here onstage, backstage, and offstage,
human-scaled and yet capable of transcendence in performance that
makes ballet the most fourth-dimensional of arts."--James Wolcott
"Vanity Fair"
"The voice in the book is excellent company, as Tchernichova
endures growing pains, backstage intrigues, and the shocks of
emigration... This book offers a fascinating portrait of a
surprisingly open-minded ballet intellectual."-- "Dance Magazine"
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