No way home
Subtitle: a dancer's journey from the streets of Havana to the stages of the world
By: Carlos Acosta
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781416566298
Subjects: Ballet dancers; Biography
Description: A ballet star traces his childhood in the impoverished suburbs of Havana, his adolescent participation in break-dancing and delinquency that prompted his enrollment in ballet school, and his performances throughout Cuba, the United States, and Europe.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. 1973-1988; title: My family; title: The photograph; title: Beginning; title: The first grand plié; title: Plagued by uncertainty; title: With hate in my heart; title: A prisoner; title: Pinar del Río; title: pt. 2. 1989-1993; title: Take off; title: The Grand Prix de Lausanne; title: History repeats itself; title: Chery's decision; title: London at eighteen; title: A year without dancing; title: Beginning again; title: Madrid; title: pt. 3. 1993-2003; title: Fears and insecurities; title: Back in Havana; title: The world will be mine; title: Good-bye, Houston; title: The Lady and the Three Musketeers; title: A moment of happiness.