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Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins
Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins
Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins
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Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins

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The biography of the first African-American prima ballerina

Winner of the The Marfield Prize / National Award for Arts Writing (2011)

Dancer Janet Collins, born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los Angeles, soared high over the color line as the first African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Night's Dancer chronicles the life of this extraordinary and elusive woman, who became a unique concert dance soloist as well as a black trailblazer in the white world of classical ballet. During her career, Collins endured an era in which racial bias prevailed, and subsequently prevented her from appearing in the South. Nonetheless, her brilliant performances transformed the way black dancers were viewed in ballet. The book begins with an unfinished memoir written by Collins in which she gives a captivating account of her childhood and young adult years, including her rejection by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dance scholar Yaël Tamar Lewin then picks up the thread of Collins's story. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with Collins and her family, friends, and colleagues to explore Collins's development as a dancer, choreographer, and painter, Lewin gives us a profoundly moving portrait of an artist of indomitable spirit.

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Release dateAug 14, 2015
ISBN9780819571151
Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins
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Yaël Tamar Lewin

Yaël Tamar Lewin is a dance historian, writer, and dancer living in New York City. She has a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University and a M.A. from Columbia University. She has worked as a copy editor for Nickelodeon Magazine, Metropolitan Home, and other publishers.

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