Previously published in 2010 as "Fleeing the Fifties in Pink Satin Toe Shoes".
Contents:
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.
Summary:
In this memoir, Lee describes how she grand jeteĢd 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.
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