Reaching for Dreams: A Ballet from Rehearsal to Opening Night

Reaching for Dreams: A Ballet from Rehearsal to Opening Night  by Susan KuklinReaching for Dreams: A Ballet from Rehearsal to Opening Night
Words and Photographs by Susan Kuklin
Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1987
978-0688063160 hardcover
978-0595170814 paperback

American Library Association Best Book, 1987
New York Public Library Books for the Teenager, Best of the Year, 1987

Go backstage with dancers from the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as they learn and perform a new ballet. Drawing on hours of conversation and observation, Susan Kuklin gives a private look at the dancers goals, disappointments, and triumphs; the endless hard work; and the tension and magic of opening night.

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