Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins

by Janet Collins and Yael Tamar Lewin

Book Overview

The biography of the first African-American prima ballerina

Winner of the The Marfield Prize / National Award for Arts Writing (2011)

Dancer Janet Collins, born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los Angeles, soared high over the color line as the first African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Night's Dancer chronicles the life of this extraordinary and elusive woman, who became a unique concert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819571148
• ISBN13: 9780819571144
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher