Noel Coward warned Mrs Worthington not to put her daughter on the stage, and parents who read Alice Robb s memoir might well whisk their little darlings away from pink tutus and pointe shoes altogether.
He was a trail-blazing genius who electrified US ballet. But he was also a dictatorial grudge-bearer who married four of his dancers. How should we remember the Russian-American choreographer?
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