dancers

A biography of African American dancer Josephine Baker written by her adopted son. Describes Baker as a performer, an activist, an adoptive mother, and a friend to world leaders. Discusses her loves, her bisexuality, her conflicted feelings about her heritage, and her legacy.

The only four-time champion of the hit ABC reality show "Dancing with the Stars" shares the lessons he has learned on and off the dance floor that helped him embrace and overcome daily challenges, along with behind-the-scenes stories from the show.

Rita Moreno describes her journey from impoverished Puerto Rican girl to Hollywood legend--and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys.

Biography of Josephine Baker that focuses on her time in Paris and her family of twelve racially diverse adopted children.

Julie, Lucie, and Alia's dance class is accepted into a national competition, but when their teacher gets sick, it is up to Lucie to choreograph a ballet for the competition.

The major strength of this accessible biography of the great stage and film dancer, choreographer, actor and director is Yudkoff's detailed treatment of Kelly's early years and his struggle to achieve professional success, although Kelly's later years devolve into something of a muddle. Kelly's mother enrolled her five children in dancing school and enjoined them to use their talent to supplement the blue-collar Irish Catholic family's income. Young Gene (1912-1996) complied by teaching children to dance at the local synagogue in Pittsburgh, before working his way through college by dancing in clubs. Later, he jettisoned law school to establish a family business, the Gene Kelly Studio of Dance. Kelly's big break came with the title role in the 1940 musical Pal Joey; he caught the eye of David O. Selznick, who brought him to Hollywood and gave him a part in For Me and My Gal (1942) with Judy Garland. Yudkoff vividly re-creates the famous Hollywood parties that Kelly and his first wife, Betsy Blair, hosted, featuring cutthroat charades and all night political discussions.

Profiles the life of superstar Jennifer Lopez. Lopez was the first Latin actress to be paid $1 million for a motion picture, and she went on to become the highest-paid Latin actress in Hollywood history as well as one of the highest-paid actresses of any ethnicity.