From the inside flap:
The world's greatest ice skater, Olympic Gold Medalist, John Curry, is one of the few sporting champions who has gone on to become a serious and successful interpretive artist. This book reveals that progress through the frank and insightful words of Curry himself and the remarkable photographs of Keith Money, one of England's most perceptive photographers.
We follow Curry from his childhood -- his parents utterly opposed to his considering a career as a dancer - through his early training as a skater and his fierce ambition to prevail at the highest level of competition. We see him in World Champion and Olympic contests, where he brought to his performances a blend of technical expertise, fluency and artistic refinement that added new dimensions to the sport for countless observers. We watch the development of his concept of the Theatre of Skating (a powerful and dramatic union of ballet and ice skating), and we are made to understand the determination and difficulty that lie behind his transformation from a great sports figure to a serious artist. Curry emerges as the first ice skater to rethink his skills in such an extraordinary manner that a ballet critic could write of his "mastery of total expressive movement triumphantly contriving to make one forget the Gold Medalist in the marvelous ice-dancer"; and so that leading choreographers - Twyla Tharp and Kenneth MacMillan - have created ice-dances for him.
The text -- Curry's wonderfully direct and open account of his life and work -- is a document that does not conceal the stresses, the depressions and the almost insurmountable barriers encountered by the skater during his amateur career. But it reveals, as well, the lighter moments and -most importantly - the thrill of artistic achievement as experienced by this remarkable performer. And in Keith Money's brilliantly intuitive high-speed phtographs there is displayed the power, beauty and seemingly effortless mastery of the world's greates skater, in every aspect of his astonishing range.
Olympic and world champion skater's progress from competition skating to interpretative artist illustrated by remarkable photographs by Keith Money and insightful words by John Curry himself.
400+ photographs
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