Rebel On Pointe A Memoir Of Ballet And Broadway [Hardcover]

Touching and beautiful; Lee Wilson is an inspiration to us all for finding a passion in life and moving beyond familial pressures and societal norms.Zippora Karz, former soloist, New York City Ballet
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The culture of the ballet world is divulged in all its glorious detail. Wilsons compelling account of her training and career shows the true courage and persistence this profession requires.Ali Duffy, founder and choreographer, Flatlands Dance Theatre
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Lee brings to her writing the same keen intelligence she brought to her dancing. It is a joy to relive some of the important moments of ballet history with her and to empathize ?as she uses her dance career to gain the independence and freedom she perceived as lacking for women like her mother only one generation earlier.Maina Gielgud, former director, The Australian Ballet
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In this uplifting memoir, Lee Wilson describes how she grand jet?d from the stifling suburbia of the 1950s, a world of rigid gender roles, to the only domain where women and men were equally paid and equally respectedin grand, historic dance theaters and under the bright lights of the Broadway stage.

Short, plump, pigeon-toed, and never good enough for mom, Lee Wilson dared to dream she could grow up to be a star. In 1962, fresh out of high school and a mere sixteen years old, Wilson left her country and the comforts of home to make the five-day journey across the Atlantic. She saw Europe as an attractive alternative to New York, where great American ballet companies were struggling to survive. That same year, Wilson made her professional debut in Monte Carlo in a command performance for Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. The following summer, as she danced across Europe, she thrilled to the sound of her first bravosand never looked back.

After touring Europe and dancing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York, Wilson set her sights on Broadway, where she danced in many famous slsH