Holding On to the Air

the long version

Suzanne Farrell, the most glorious and most mysterious American ballerina of her generation, tells her story here for the first time–from her years of hard knocks and impossible dreams as a little girl in Cincinnati to the fulfillment of all those dreams and more, on the stages of the world. At the center of her book, as he was of her art, is the spellbinding figure of George Balanchine, the choreographer of genius who picked a teenaged Farrell from the corps de ballet and made her his collaborator in some of the most dazzling ballets of the twentieth century.