Emma Blaxland-Hunter, a prima ballerina from London, must re-evaluate her life after doctors declare her knee unfit for dancing. At the behest of her mother, Emma returns home to Sydney, where she discovers her affluent and loving grandmother, Beattie Blaxland, has left her an i…
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Emma, a prima ballerina in London, is at a crossroads both professionally and personally after an injured knee ruins her career. Returning home to Australia, she learns of her grandmother Beattie's death and a strange inheritance: a sheep station, in an isolated rural Australia.…
Emma Blaxland-Hunter, a prima ballerina from London, must re-evaluate her life after doctors declare her knee unfit for dancing. At the behest of her mother, Emma returns home to Sydney, where she discovers her affluent and loving grandmother, Beattie Blaxland, has left her an i…
In 1920s Glasgow, Beattie Blaxland falls pregnant to her married lover Henry just before her nineteenth birthday. Abandoned by her family, Beattie and Henry set sail for a new life in Australia. But life is not about to follow the plan that Beattie had hoped for and fate will pl…
Emma Blaxland-Hunter, a prima ballerina from London, must re-evaluate her life after doctors declare her knee unfit for dancing. At the behest of her mother, Emma returns home to Sydney, where she discovers her affluent and loving grandmother, Beattie Blaxland, has left her an i…
As improbable as it is inspiring, the story of one of the greatest ballerinas (Lilian Alicia Marks) of the 20th century, her fortitude and reinvention, and her journey from the Ballets Russes, Balanchine and Matisse to international stardom.
BALLET. In pre-World War I England, a frail Jewish girl is diagnosed with flat feet, knock knees, and weak legs. In short order, Lilian Alicia Marks would become a dance prodigy, the cherished baby ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev, and the youngest ever soloist at his famed Ballets…
As improbable as it is inspiring, the story of one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century; her fortitude and reinvention; and her journey from the Ballets Russes, Balanchine, and Matisse to international stardomIn pre-World War I England, a frail Jewish girl--so shy…
As improbable as it is inspiring, the story of one of the greatest ballerinas (Lilian Alicia Marks) of the 20th century, her fortitude and reinvention, and her journey from the Ballets Russes, Balanchine and Matisse to international stardom.
Throughout history the ballerina has been viewed aa the feminine ideal -- beautiful and perfect. However, the reality has been very different. The author reviews the lives of some of the most celebrated ballerinas of the ninteenth through twenty-first century.
Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection? the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century-- who often led double lives as concubines-- through the poverty of the cor…
Throughout history the ballerina has been viewed aa the feminine ideal -- beautiful and perfect. However, the reality has been very different. The author reviews the lives of some of the most celebrated ballerinas of the ninteenth through twenty-first century.
Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection--the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century--who often led double lives as concubines--through the poverty of the corps…
