Every Step You Take: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Soto, Jock

• Book ID: 108237411
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061732386

✦ Synopsis

In June 2005 Jock Soto, at forty years old, gave his farewell performance as a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. The program, an event of unprecedented ambition, showcased pieces from five legendary choreographers, and it capped one of the most storied careers in ballet history--an ascent that be­gan when Soto was just three years old. After retiring, Soto was determined to embrace a new future, but he found himself obsessed with questions about his past--where had he come from, and where had he been?

Every Step You Take weaves together the diverse strands of Soto's life: being the half-breed offspring of a Puerto Rican--Navajo couple, the gay son of a fiercely macho man, a naive teenager from the desert running in the sophisticated art world of New York, and a driven artist by day and hard-core party animal by night. Soto recalls his professional relationships with such icons as George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon, Darci Kistler,...