A dancer in wartime
Subtitle: one girl's journey from the Blitz to Sadler's Wells
By: Gillian Lynne
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444813531
Subjects: Social aspects; Large type books; Childhood and youth; World War, 1939-1945
Description: Gillian Lynne is one of the world's pre-eminent choreographers, the groundbreaking creative force behind CATS and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. She began her career as a ballerina, learning to dance alongside Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Beryl Grey and Frederick Ashton during the Second World War. 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; from performing in the West End with doodlebugs falling, to touring a devastated Europe ... and then the call to join Sadler's Wells.