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Memoirs
American Indian Ballerinas by Lili Cockerille Livingston, Hardcover, 328 pages, 42 black & white photographs.
The first authorized biography of four 20th century American Indian ballerinas: Maria Tallchief, Rosella Hightower, Marjorie Tallchief, and Yvonne Chouteau.
By With To and From: A Lincoln Kirstein Reader edited by Nicholas Jenkins. Hardcover, 422 pages, 37 black & white illustrations.
A collection of essays, poems and other writings from the 1920's to the 1980's that looks not only at ballet and dance, but covers painting, photography, poetry, film, and personal memoirs of 20th century personalities, including George Balanchine, Ernest Hemingway and Marilyn Monroe.
The Dance Has Many Faces (Third Revised Edition) edited by Walter Sorrell. Paperback, 273 pages, over 20 black & white illustrations.
A collection of essays, dating from the 1940's to the 90's, including pieces by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Clive Barnes, Selma Jeanne Cohen, Erick Hawkins, Doris Humphrey, Deborah Jowett, Murray Louis, Walter Sorrell, and Walter Terry.
Dancing for Balanchine by Merrill Ashley. Hardcover, 236 pages, over 400 black & white photographs.
Merrill Ashley, one of the last dancers to have been entirely trained and developed under George Balanchine's active tutelage, was also among the last of the privileged dancers to have inspired him to create new ballets. In this memoir, she tells what it was really like to work with the world's greatest choreographer. The book contains unprecedented sequence photographs of Ms. Ashley doing basic ballet steps with captions introducing the reader to the fine points of ballet technique as practiced under Balanchine. |
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Far from Denmark by Peter Martins with Robert Cronfield. Hardcover, 241 pages, black & white and color photographs.
Traces the career of NYCB Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins in his own words.
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I, Maya Plisetskaya by Maya Plisetskaya. Translated by Antonina W. Bouis. Foreward by Tim Scholl. Hardcover, 386 pages, 74 black & white photographs. 241 pages, black & white and color photographs.
Published in October 2001 by Yale University Press, Maya Plisetskaya's autobiography recalls the hardships of the famed ballerina's early years and her struggles within the Soviet system to realize her legendary talent and achieve an international career. One of the major dance personalities of the 20th century, Plisetskaya's story melds politics, art and many of the major figures of the Cold War era in a riveting true story. |
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Holding on to the Air: An Autobiography by Suzanne Farrell with Toni Bentley. Hardcover, 322 pages, 16 pages of black & white photographs.
For the first time, Ms. Farrell tells the story of her life and career from her childhood in Cincinnati to her years as America's most outstanding ballerina to her retirement from the stage in November, 1989.
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In Balanchine's Company: A Dancer's Memoir by Barbara Milberg Fisher. Hardcover, 211 pages, black & white photographs.
Barbara Milberg danced for George Balanchine for 12 years as part of Ballet Society and the young New York City Ballet. Her memoir is told through the eyes of a young dancer in what was a truly magical place and time. It offers a rare glimpse inside Balanchine's artistry and a vivid account of daily life during NYCB's early years.
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Jerome Robbins
That Broadway Man
That Ballet Man by Christine Conrad. Hardcover, 303 pages, many black & white and color photos. Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions.
The author's friendship with Jerome Robbins spanned a 30-year-period. The book draws on many of the interviews Robbins gave over a 60-year period and provides a deeply human look at this great American artist.
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Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief with Larry Kaplan. Hardcover, 352 pages, 35 black & white photographs.
In her detailed autobiography, the international star and former NYCB principal dancer traces her career, three marriages (including her first, to George Balanchine), relationships with her partners (especially Andre Eglevsky and Erik Bruhn), and gives accounts of the evolution of ballets in which she starred and of Balanchine's working methods.
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Mosaic: Memoirs by Lincoln Kirstein. Hardcover, 269 pages, 25 black & white photographs.
This long-awaited autobiography of the co-founder of the New York City Ballet chronicles his astonishing early days, from his youth in Brahmin Boston to 1933, when while visiting Paris, he met George Balanchine and persuaded the choreographer to come to the United States.
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Nureyev: His Life by Diane Solway. Hardcover, 550 pages, black & white photographs.
This book is the first full-scale biography of the legendary Russian dancer to trace Nureyev's remarkable climb out of poverty in the war-torn Soviet Union to become one of the 20th century's most popular and influential artists. The book traces his family relationships, training, defection, performances, and legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn, as well as his many contributions to the world of ballet as performer, choreographer, mentor and artistic director. The author conducted more than 200 interviews and draws on vast stores of original source material to provide this penetrating portrait of the dancer.
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Once a Dancer by Allegra Kent. Hardcover, 352 pages, black & white photographs.
This memoir by the former New York City Ballet principal dancer chronicles her complex career and offers wonderful sketches of her contemporaries, including Edward Villella, Karinska, and the artist Joseph Cornell.
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Our Meals: Making a Home for Family and Friends by Heather Watts and Jock Soto. Hardcover, 238 pages.
A cookbook filled with housewarming recipes and memories of a remarkable on-stage partnership and a mutual zest for entertaining friends and family in simple and elegant fashion.
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Prodigal Son: Dancing for Balanchine in a World of Pain and Magic by Edward Villella with Larry Kaplan. Paperback, 317 pages, 28 pages of black & white illustrations, index.
With the same intensity of feeling he brought to the stage, the former NYCB principal dancer (and now Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet) tells the story of his tempestuous life. He talks about those who inspired and taught him (George Balanchine, Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins, Igor Stravinsky, Stanley Williams), the ballerinas he partnered (Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland, Patricia McBride, and Violette Verdy), and the roles in which he changed the way people thought about ballet and male dancers (Afternoon of a Faun, Apollo, Dances at a Gathering, Prodigal Son, Rubies from Jewels, and Tarantella).
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Shadowplay: The Life of Antony Tudor by Donna Perlmutter. Hardcover 420 pages, 16 pages of black & white photographs.
The first biography of the famed choreographer of such masterpieces as Dark Elegies, Jardin aux Lilas, Pillar of Fire, and Shadowplay.
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Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill. Hardcover, 675 pages with black & white photos. Published by Broadway Books.
This widely acclaimed book on the life and career of Jerome Robbins was published in late 2006 and draws on thousands of documents from the choreographer’s personal and professional papers as well as hundreds of personal interviews. The work takes the reader through the worlds of Broadway, Hollywood and ballet during a golden 50-year period of creativity. One reviewer described this work as “an epic biography—remarkable in scope and meticulous detail.”
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Tributes Preface by Peter Martins; Foreward by Mikhail Baryshnikov.
This beautiful book is an elegant celebration of New York City Ballet, with full-color art and writing from this century's greatest artists and authors, who have been enchanted and seduced by the premier dance company in the world.
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