Perhaps thee archetypal ballerina, Janet Sassoon has indeed had a profound impact on the art of dance.
And yet, her formula for success is strikingly simple.
Yes, Sassoon claims that the foremost element necessary for having a bountiful career as a dancer is just one word: "passion."
"There are so many things, but I think that [passion] covers it," Sassoon said in an interview with San Francisco Chronicle.
"You have to have a love of dance to where you can't live without it, where you'll die without it. We all know you need technique-- that's a tool, but you need to use that tool with your whole soul and heart," she continued.
With a long list of accolades and experience--making her debut as an extra in the 1944 War Memorial Opera House production of Falstaff, she rose through the ranks and performed the roll of a Russian doll in the very first American production of Nutcracker--Sassoon has taken her wisdom in movement to the printed page.
Apropos, it's called Reverence.
Published by XLibris with a sticker price of $34.99, Sasoon's memoir also available via most e-book vendors.
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