Publisher's Synopsis
The author of this memoir is perhaps the most important dance impresario of the past half-century. The companies Paul Szilard has brought to audiences throughout the world include the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Japan's Komaki Ballet and Bunraku, the Dancers of Bali and the Universal Ballet, among many others. He has moved in the circles of such master choreographers as George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins and Alvin Ailey, and such ballet stars as Violette Verdy, Erik Bruhn, Margot Fonteyn, Alicia Alonso, Patrick Dupond, Mia Slavenska, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. His recollections of these groups, these artists and so many more of comparable distinction provide a fascinating look -- broad and intimate and, most of all, candid -- behind the scenes of the dance world of our time.
