Allegra Kent joined the New York City Ballet at age 15 and within two years had become one of Balanchine's favorite dancers, inspiring numerous works including The Unanswered Question. By turns beautiful, sensuous, and mysterious on stage, her life was as dramatic as her dancing style: marrying at age twenty and having three children in the middle of her career; battling an overbearing mother, depression, and financial troubles; and experiencing health problems. Fired from the company on the day Balanchine died, she remains one of the most influential and inspiring principal dancers from the early years of the New York City Ballet. She lives in New York City.
"In [George Balanchine's] garden of unearthly delights, Allegra Kent was the most enchanting bloom of all...Through Kent's own wise and courageous recollections...we see her unique spirit, and almost see again her glorious dancing." --"Vanity Fair""[Kent's] writing is as varied, lucid, and troubling as her dancing...To ask whether she knows how much she has inadvertently told us is merely to frame one more time the terms of her peculiar mystery...Her book is another Allegra Kent performance." --"The Wall Street Journal""As distinctly riveting as she ever was on stage." --"Dance Magazine"
"In [George Balanchine's] garden of unearthly delights, Allegra Kent was the most enchanting bloom of all...Through Kent's own wise and courageous recollections...we see her unique spirit, and almost see again her glorious dancing." --"Vanity Fair""[Kent's] writing is as varied, lucid, and troubling as her dancing...To ask whether she knows how much she has inadvertently told us is merely to frame one more time the terms of her peculiar mystery...Her book is another Allegra Kent performance." --"The Wall Street Journal""As distinctly riveting as she ever was on stage." --"Dance Magazine"
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