{"product_id":"9781786820983","title":"For the Love of Dance","description":"Dame Beryl Grey’s life is defined by her love of dance. \u003cp\u003e As bombs fell on London, and aged only fourteen, she joined Ninette de Valois’s ballet Company, touring Britain during WWII. Despite the difficulties of wartime Britain, as a true artist Beryl quickly became one of the finest ballerinas England has ever produced. Unprecedented in the history of ballet, she first danced the full length \u003ci\u003eSwan Lake\u003c\/i\u003e on her fifteenth birthday, \u003ci\u003eGiselle\u003c\/i\u003e at sixteen and \u003ci\u003ePrincess Aurora\u003c\/i\u003e at nineteen, becoming a leading ballerina as the Company (which became the Royal Ballet) travelled through war-ravaged Britain and Europe, and embarked on the now-famous tours of the United States. Beryl became an international dance star – the first English ballerina to dance in Soviet Russia at the Bolshoi and in Communist China. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Having retired from dancing, Beryl became the Artistic Director of the then severely weakened Festival Ballet. Through her love of dance, her vision, her expertise and her sheer hard work, over ten years she transformed that Company with new dancers, new ballets, a new home and new audiences. But even with all her success as Artistic Director, it was then that Beryl met her nemesis – the multi-talented, deeply troubled, Rudolf Nureyev. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Based on her letters and diaries, \u003ci\u003eFor the Love of Dance\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary tale of an extraordinary woman and a life given to her first love – dance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oberon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182033944816,"sku":"9781786820983","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781786820983_p0.jpg?v=1763730094","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786820983","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}