For the love of dance : my autobiography /: my autobiography. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dame Beryl Grey.
• Authors: Grey, Beryl, 1927-
• Contents: Front Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword -- Clement Crisp OBE. R.; Preface -- Adam Darius; Part One -- As a Dancer; Prologue -- Dame Beryl Grey, DBE; 1 How It All Started; 2 Early Blossoms, The Beginnings; 3 The Big Change; 4 Auditions; 5 London Living; 6 1939: War; 7 First Professional Performance, 1941; 8 Out On The Road, 1941; 9 Fate Steps In; 10 Swan Lake 1942; 11 Win Some, Lose Some, 1942; 12 New Ground; 13 1942, My First Christmas Away, And Onwards; 14 Nourishing Support -- 1943; 15 A Welcome Break -- And My Beaux; 16 1944, Giselle 17 1944: Allied Invasion18 1945: Danseurs Returning; 19 My First Foreign Tour, 1945; 20 Royal Opera House, 1946; 21 Disappointments; 22 On To Vienna, 1946; 23 The Dawn Of The Opera Company; 24 Friendships; 25 Windfalls And Touring Abroad, 1947; 26 Autumn 1947; Spring 1948; 27 1948 -- Spring, Swan Lake And Madam's 'Job'; 28 Friends And Guest Artists; 29 1949: Florence, And Preparations For America; 30 America; 31 Sven; 32 After-Effects; 33 Wedding Bells; 34 Swedish Honeymoon; 35 The Second American Visit; 36 The Long Haul; 37 Living Back On The Train; 38 The Start Of Married Life, 1951 39 Working With Massine, 195140 3D Film, 1952; 41 Sylvia -- Its Creation -- And Laughing Legs!; 42 Autumn 1952 -- Triumph And Tragedy; 43 First Guesting; 44 Summer Holiday, 1953; 45 Lady In Waiting; 46 Not Forgotten; 47 New Arrival; 48 My Return To The Stage, 1954/55; 49 Guest Invitations; 50 To America Again, 1955; 51 Home And Away Again; 52 Arrival Of The Bolshoi; 53 Striking Out On My Own, 1957; 54 Leaving The Royal Ballet; 55 Spreading My Wings -- South America 1957; 56 Chile; 57 Return To Buenos Aires; 58 Brazil, June 1957, And Central America Travel Troubles; 59 Mexico; 60 Russian Murmurs 61 South Africa, 195762 Rhodesia, Home, Oslo; 63 To Russia, 1957-58; 64 Bolshoi: Coaching And Rehearsing; 65 Bolshoi Debut And On To Kiev; 66 Tblisi And Moscow; 67 Leningrad (St Petersburg); 68 1958: Multi-Tasking; 69 First Tour With Festival Ballet, 1958; 70 1959: Covent Garden, Bucharest And Christmas; 71 1960: Flying South; 72 Southern Hemispehere, 1960; 73 Beirut; 74 Family Matters; 75 Japan, Hong Kong And The Philippines, 1961; 76 1962: Appearances With Royal And Festival Companies; 77 China, 1964; 78 1964, South Africa Revisited; 79 1964-66 -- Decision Time; Part Two -- As Director 1 London Festival Ballet2 Artistic Director -- Festival Ballet; 3 First Weeks; 4 Sleeping Beauty; 5 First Foreign Touring; 6 Summer And Storm Clouds; 7 Autumn Tour And The Gilpin Dilemma; 8 1969 -- New Tours, New Dancers, New Ballets, New Troubles; 9 My Company, And Being Stiffed; 10 Spanish Practices; 11 Max Opposes Equity's Demand; 12 South Korea, September 1969; 13 Success In Japan; 14 Osaka; 15 A Kuala Lumpur First, And Home Again; 16 Nutcrackers And A New Don Q; 17 Spring Tour 1970 -- Much Ado; 18 Barcelona 1970; 19 New Ballets And New Dancers; 20 Stiff Heads For The Door
• Publisher Details: London : Oberon Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792.8028092; Ballet dancers -- Great Britain -- Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General; PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General; Ballet dancers; Great Britain; Electronic books; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1786820986; 9781786820983
• Related ISBNs: 9781786820976; 1786820978
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