Based on a long series of conversations with Enrico Rotelli, Passo dopo passo (Step After Step) is Carla Fracci telling her story in her own words. From a simple childhood during the war to the triumphs with the American Ballet Theatre and beyond: it is a fascinating journey.
Rotelli has divided the autobiography into short chapters — Rudy, London Festival Ballet, Swanhilda — which gives the book a fast pace. For those who have followed the career of La Fracci in other books or interviews, some of this material will be familiar: daughter of a tram driver, marriage to Visconti’s assistant, birth of her son Francesco, Nureyev… but here there are lots of new nuggets to be found.
Before I go any further, I should come clean as I am mentioned in the book, and had a minor role in its creation, but when there is a conflict of interest and I don’t like a performance, a cd, a production, or a video, I choose not to write about it… after all, friends are friends.… [continue reading]
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