Behind the red velvet curtain an American ballerina in Russia
"This book an unflinching, complex, and compassionate true tale of the first American ballerina to sign a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet Theater in Moscow, Russia. The narrative is drawn from more than a decade of reporting, interviews, and research by an award-winning journalist"--
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Womacks Win
- Flying
- Away
- Ballet factory
- "Prove it to me"
- Vertigo
- Cathedral of dance
- Dream
- Return
- The markings of a ballerina
- Protégé
- The historic stage
- Soup
- Department of public services
- Secret wedding
- Behind the red velvet curtain
- Nutcracker
- Acid attack
- Dead end
- Trial
- Salt water
- Diplomacy
- Santa Barbara
- A new Russia
- Murder on a Moscow bridge
- Stage fright
- Art and politics
- Waiting
- Home
- Culture shock
- Ranching
- Goodbye
- Astrakhan
- American wedding
- Flee.
