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01923aam a2200325Ka 4500 001 E48A3294957111E48BB50097DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150106010110 008 140925s2014 fluo b 001 0aeng d 020 $a 0813060087 020 $a 9780813060088 035 $a (OCoLC)891328776 040 $a GZG $c GZG $d TDF $d BDX $d JQM $d YDXCP $d NhCcYBP $d SILO 050 4 $a GV1785.W525 $b A3 2014 082 04 $a 792.802/8092 $2 23 100 1 $a Wilson, Lee. 245 10 $a Rebel on pointe : $b a memoir of ballet & Broadway / $c Lee Wilson. 260 $a Gainesville, FL : $b University Press of Florida, $c c2014. 300 $a 215 p. : $b photos ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Previously published in 2010 as "Fleeing the Fifties in Pink Satin Toe Shoes". 505 0 $a I discover dance, 1946-1954 -- My formative teachers, 1954-1957 -- Dance requires grit, 1957-1959 -- Academic hurdles, 1959-1961 -- Falling in love with New York, spring 1961 -- At the Ballet Theatre school, summer 1961 -- Stars in Madame Pereyaslavec's class, 1961-1962 -- Rosella Hightower, Cannes, and Monte Carlo, 1962 -- Bruhn, Nureyev, and Paris, 1963 -- Maina Gielgud, Pas de Quatre, and Vichy, 1963 -- Algeria, Naples, and Bordeaux, 1963-1964 -- Alicia Markova and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, 1964-1967 -- Hello, Broadway! 1967. 520 $a In this memoir, Lee describes how she grand jeteÌd from the stifling suburbia of the 1950s, a world of ridged gender roles, to the only domain where women and men were equally paid and equally respected in grand, historic dance theaters and under the bright lights of the broadway stage. 600 10 $a Wilson, Lee. 650 0 $a Ballet dancers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Autobiography. 650 0 $a Ballets. 651 0 $a Broadway (New York, N.Y.) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210023740.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E48A3294957111E48BB50097DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search