A Dancer in Wartime: One Girl's Journey from the Blitz to Sadler's Wells
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0701185996 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Dancer in Wartime Gillian Lynne is a choreographer, who began her career as a ballerina. Her mother took her to the doctor as a child, feeling she was hyperactive. As the author says, if such a thing happened now she would undoubtedly be given a named condition, but, luckily for her, the doctor suggested dance class for all that excess energy. So, Jill (as she was then) headed for Miss Madeleine S. A great inspirational read - not just for the young, but for all of us ! The voice of this fine piece of non-fiction is a young girl and Gillian Lynne remarkably retains this childlike innocence through the story of her life. You believe that this girl loves and lives for the chance to dance. It remains very fresh in the reading because of that. The pictures are so uniquely apt to the text; snap shots of the life of WW II Britain. I found reading this. Jan said Amazing. i loved this book - terribly real and brought to life what it was like during war times, dedication and hard work brings results.
But she started her career as a ballerina, leaning to dance alongside Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Beryl Grey and Frederick Ashton during the WWII. A Dancer in Wartime tells the story of Gillian's extraordinary childhood from Miss Madeleine Sharp's Ballet Class for Young Ladies in Bromley, to being evacuated with her theatre school to rural Leicestershire.. Gillian Lynne is one of the world's pre-eminent choreographers, the groundbreaking creative force behind blockbusters such as Cats and ThePhantom of the Opera