From Paris to Pittsburgh
Subtitle: my life in dance
By: Nicolas Petrov ; with Claudia Morris Lawrey
Contributors: Lawrey, Claudia Morris
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: North Charleston, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781490397498
Subjects: Dancers; Biography; Choreographers; Ballet; History; Danseurs; Biographies; Chorégraphes; Histoire; Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Description: Nicolas Petrov, founder and director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, tells the story of his life and provides an informal history of dance in the Pittsburgh region.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Baby steps; title: Reaching for the stars; title: Grand jeté; title: My suitcase and me; title: Dancing for the camera; title: Massine's last grandiose adventure; title: Grounded for life; title: To visa or not to visa; title: Teaching Pittsburgh to dance; title: Building momentum; title: Curtain up; title: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre finds its legs; title: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre on its own; title: Curtains; title: Squarely at square one; title: Feuillet, Stepanov, and Stanislavsky; title: Heyday; title: A time for every season; title: Health, wealth, and Tony Curtis; title: What goes around comes around; title: List of choreographic works.