How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve Famous Dancers - six women and six men - from different parts of the world.
Dancers include: Louis XIV, John Durang, Marie Taglioni, William Henry \'Juba\' Lane, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Laban, Doris Humphrey, Michio Ito, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Pearl Primus,.
Spanning the seventeenth into the twenty-first centuries, each biographical sketch is placed within the subject\'s historical and cultural context.
How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve Famous Dancers - six women and six men - from different parts of the world