A collection of stories based on real-life incidents from the lives of Tamara Karsavina, Alicia Markova, Margot Fonteyn, Lynn Seymour and Rudolf Nuryev. Like most children, they thought dancing was beautiful - but they didn't expect to have to work quite so hard to achieve perfection.
This collection of five ballet stories brings together four young dancers who all grew up to be famous ballerinas and dance the lead in "Swan Lake", and a little boy who became one of the most famous princes in ballet.