Daria 5

✍ Scribed by Martin E. Silenus

• Book ID: 100368301
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 67 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B087M8C28T

✦ Synopsis

Daria Klimentová has been one of Britain's best-loved ballerinas for two decades, having danced at the Scottish Ballet and then as a Principal and Senior Principal at English National Ballet. Daria was born in former Czechoslovakia and lived under the rule of the Soviet Union until the Velvet Revolution of 1989. She initially trained as a young member of the Czech Olympic Gymnastics Squad before transferring to ballet. After a year as a principal dancer in the Czech National Ballet, she moved to dance with the Cape Ballet Company in South Africa, where she witnessed the end of apartheid. In he.;Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 Horní Pocernice; Chapter 2 Sparta Prague; Chapter 3 Conservatoire and Competition; Chapter 4 Under the Golden Roof and Into the Velvet Revolution; Chapter 5 Out to Africa; Chapter 6 A Scotch Symphony; Chapter 7 New Beginnings: Expectation and Loss; Chapter 8 Muppet and Motherhood; Chapter 9 Tantrums and Tears; Chapter 10 Saved By My Handsome Princes; Chapter 11 Agony and Ecstasy; Chapter 12 I'm Still Dancing; A Danceography: My Life in Dance; Glossary.