KAREN KAIN: MOVEMENT NEVER LIES. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

by Kain, Karen. With Stephen Godfrey and Penelope Reed Doob

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Book description: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1994, first editiion.. 280 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0771023200 Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs. "Now, for the first time, Karen Kain tells her own story. Here she recalls her early training, her days at the National Ba. llet School, and her first years in the company, leading to the Moscow International Ballet Competition of 1973, from which she and partner Frank Augustyn returned as stars. A whirlwind decade followed, in which the popularity of the Kain/Augusty. n partnership flourished, and in which Karen branched out to dance more and more as a guest artist - particularly with Nureyev and with Roland Petit's company, Le Ballet de Marseille. She talks about the excitement and glamour of these years - of . to u ring with Nureyev, of meeting and working with the great names of the ballet world, such as Dame Margot Fonteyn and Sir Frederick Ashton, and of being dazzled herself by the acclaim she received. But she also writes candidly about the cripplin. g f at igue, the uncertainty and depression, and the increasing introspection that led her, in the early eighties, to a sweeping re-assessment of her life and career. Happily, with tenacity and courage, she emerged from this period with a clearer a. ware nes s of her priorities, to become the luminous artist of depth and maturity that we know today. And she deals with these years, too - with her growing sense of herself, with her marriage, with her insights into her roles, old and new - with a. cute inte lligence, charm, and humour. This autobiography will be a revelation to Karen Kain's many fans. With its elegant design and over one hundred photographs, it is also a handsome tribute to the dancer, the star, and the woman, as she approa. ches her g ala twenty-fifth anniversary with the National Ballet of Canada." Tiny bump a t front corners of boards. Dust jacket has slight wrinkling at top of spine. Very Good+/Very Good+.

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