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Night's Dancer (Paperback)
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Night's Dancer (Paperback)
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Dancer Janet Collins, born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los
Angeles, soared high over the color line as the first
African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Night's
Dancer chronicles the life of this extraordinary and elusive woman,
who became a unique concert dance soloist as well as a black
trailblazer in the white world of classical ballet. During her
career, Collins endured an era in which racial bias prevailed, and
subsequently prevented her from appearing in the South.
Nonetheless, her brilliant performances transformed the way black
dancers were viewed in ballet. The book begins with an unfinished
memoir written by Collins in which she gives a captivating account
of her childhood and young adult years, including her rejection by
the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dance scholar Yael Tamar Lewin
then picks up the thread of Collins's story. Drawing on extensive
research and interviews with Collins and her family, friends, and
colleagues to explore Collins's development as a dancer,
choreographer, and painter, Lewin gives us a profoundly moving
portrait of an artist of indomitable spirit.
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