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[Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley] ☆ Holding On to the Air: An Autobiography ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Holding On to the Air: An Autobiography Dance and life Dance part of the book- great!Life part- a bit disturbing. Balanchine was a great manipulator. I find it interesting that she didn't think Balanchine needed to apologize for pursuing her. How can you just accept the fact that a much older, married man, made you feel guilty for not having an exclusive relationship with him, to the point of driving away a man you love? And then banishing you for daring to get married?? The personal stuff, just screams emotional abuse to me, and she
| Title | : | Holding On to the Air: An Autobiography |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813025931 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
Dance and life Dance part of the book- great!Life part- a bit disturbing. Balanchine was a great manipulator. I find it interesting that she didn't think Balanchine needed to apologize for pursuing her. How can you just accept the fact that a much older, married man, made you feel guilty for not having an exclusive relationship with him, to the point of driving away a man you love? And then banishing you for daring to get married?? The personal stuff, just screams emotional abuse to me, and she seems to justify it all. It left me feeling sad that she had to deal with a man like that in order to have a dance career.But again, the dance parts were a grea. "I have the older version!" according to Sylviastel. First, I have the 1990 version of her autobiography. While it is interested, a lot has happened to Suzanne Farrell since 1990. She was awarded the National Medal of the Arts and inducted as one of the five Kennedy Center Honors in Washington D.C. Suzanne Farrell is a classically trained ballerina who has become a force in American ballet. Her relationship with George Ballanchine is fascinating. She was one of his beloved muses.At 15 years old, she moved with her divorced mother and sister to New York City to attend the prestigious ballet school founded by George Ballanchine. Her life would never be the same. While reading her autobiograp. Holding on to the Air captivates and intrigues the reader. A must read for ballet lovers, Holding on the Air is beautifully and honestly written by Suzanne Farrell, legendary ballerina of the New York City Ballet. The reader is taken from Miss Farrell's early days as Suzanne "Ficker," ballet student, to Suzanne Farrell, ballet star. She writes about her early hardship at NYCB, her marriage, her fame, and her somewhat loving and complicated relationship with choreographer and ballet master George Balanchine. Balanchine once told Farrell to think of "holding on to the air" in order to do a particular balance. For me, the title of her book signifies her holding on to the air that gave her dancing l
She is the subject of an Academy Award nominated documentary, Suzanne Farrell--Elusive Muse. "Absolutely spellbinding: ballerina Farrell's autobiography is the story of someone doing exactly what she wanted in life, and loving every minute of it. A professor of dance at Florida State University in Tallahassee, she also teaches a summer ballet course at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In the fall of 2000, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet was launched as an ongoing partnership with the Kennedy Center.. Through her work with George Balanchine, it is also the story of one of the greatest artistic collaborations in dance. One third of her repertory of more than 100 ballets were
. Here with former NYCB dancer Bentley, she tells of it with humility, integrity, wit and sophistication. BOMC alternate. Photos not seen by PW. Farrell returned to the company in 1974 and retired in 1989 at the age of 44, one of the century's greatest ballerinas. Farrell's is first of all a classically American story of a self-made woman: growing up a tomboy and a dance student in a broken home in Cincinnati, Ohio, she struck out at 15 for Manhattan with her mother and sisters on the chance that she might be accepted into the famed School of American Ballet. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Discovered, aesthetically molded and eventually wooed by Russian-born Balanchine, she left NYCB in 1969 after it became apparent that her husband, dancer Paul Mejia, could have no career there so long as Mr. From P
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