Kate, who lives with her grandmother on Manhattan's Upper West Side, wants to be a ballet dancer, but when her dancing comes into conflict with her home life, she begins to wonder where her commitment really lies.
The autobiography of a dancer who trained with the San Francisco Ballet and with Balanchine, dropped out, then-after years of being away from ballet-retrained herself.
16-year-old Masumi is admitted to a famous ballet school, and she finally has the chance to realize her dream of becoming a ballerina, but she struggles at the new school because of her insufficient training.
Masumi, trying to make it in the competitive world of ballet, gets a chance to audition for a lead role with the Bolshoi, but first she must defeat new rival Sidney Eglund in a dance-off in front of famous ballerina Margaret Fonteyn.
Two fifteen-year-old American ballet students, a boy and a girl, discuss their training, their lives and experiences as performers, and their hopes for ballet stardom.
Describes the experiences of twins Amy and Laurel Foster, who trained for ten years to become professional ballerinas and studied at the School of American Ballet in New York.
