Cover -- Contents -- Prologue with Letter from Alicia Alonso -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Antes (Before) -- 1. Always Ask Why -- 2. Pro-Arte Musical, Yavorsky, and New York -- 3. Alicia, Fernando, and Laura: Giant Steps across a Changing Landscape -- 4. Musicals, Mordkin, Balanchine, and the Birth of Ballet Theatre -- 5. Repertoire, Camaraderie, and an Étoile -- 6. Challenges and Pilgrimages -- 7. Autumn in New York, and a Dawning in Havana -- 8. Ballet Theatre, a University of Dance, and More . . . -- 9. Ballet Alicia Alonso -- 10. El Maestro de Maestros, the Father of Cuban Ballet -- 11. Crafting a Curriculum, Sculpting a Style -- 12. Legends and Lessons: Laura and Loipa -- 13. A Revolutionary Proposal -- 14. Batista's Blackmail Bid -- 15. The Soviet Union Invites the Alonsos -- Part II. Después (After) -- 16. Cuban Revolution Triumphs-and Invests in Ballet! -- 17. Constructing Ballet Schools, Extending the Revolution -- 18. International Recognition Abroad, at Home, on Film, and in Print -- 19. Camagüey: The Center of Gravity Shifts -- 20. Révérence -- Part III. Recuerdos (Recollections) -- Introduction -- Aurora Bosch -- Carlos Acosta -- Azari Plisetsky -- Ramona de Sáa -- Lázaro Carreño and Yoel Carreño -- Tania Vergara -- Menia Martínez -- René de Cárdenas -- John White -- Lorena Feijóo and Lupe Calzadilla -- Jorge Esquivel -- Lorna Feijóo and Nelson Madrigal -- Donald Saddler -- Grettel Morejón -- Appendix A: Dance Magazine Interview -- Appendix B: La danza eterna Interview -- Appendix C: Address to the Assemblée Internationale, Toronto -- Appendix D: Prizes Awarded to Cuban National Ballet Dancers, 1964-1974 -- Appendix E: Selected BNC-Commissioned Repertoire Works, 1959-1974 -- Appendix F: Elementary, Middle Ballet, and National Arts Schools -- Appendix G: Proposal on Ballet.

Appendix H: Revolutionary Government Statute to Guarantee National Ballet and Law 812 -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Written records of Alonso's work are scarce, yet Toba Singer's quest to spotlight his seminal role in the development of the modern ballet canon yields key material: pre-blockade tapes from Lincoln Center, Spanish-language sources from the Museum of Dance in Havana, and interviews with the ballet master himself alongside a broad range of friends, relatives, and collaborators from throughout his long career, including his ex-wife, Alicia, a famous ballerina in her own right.

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