Aya finds herself competing with world-famous ballerina Diana Roberts in Akira's affections as well as professionally. Then, when the sponsorship of a wealthy businessman depends on Aya being removed from the performance, will Akira put her feelings first?.
When fifteen-year-old best friends Henry and Eve leave New Jersey, one for tennis camp in Florida and one for ballet camp in New York, each faces challenges that put her long-cherished dreams of the future to the test.
Describes how the renowned Russian ballet dancer found an outlet for his childhood unhappiness through dance and was eventually called to perform for the Tsar.
A biography of dancer Rudolf Nureyev, tracing his life from his youth at the Kirov, his defection to the West in 1961, his rise to fame, and later, his battle with AIDS.
A story inspired by Edgar Degas's famous 1878 painting "L'?toile," or "Dancer on the Stage," in which Sylvie Bertrand, an ambitious young pupil at the Paris Opera Ballet, struggles to keep herself and her dreams alive when the Franco-Prussian War breaks out.
A biography of the former Soviet ballet star who broadened his career after coming to the United States, becoming a choreographer, actor, and director of the American Ballet Theatre.
