Fernando bujones autobiography example

They Made Our World Larger

Biographies of dancers who forged new paths

Fernando Bujones:
An Autobiography

By Fernando Bujones with Zeida

Cecilia-Méndez.

Doral, FL: Higher Education & Technology Consultants, 2009. 342 pages.

Fernando bujones autobiography example

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Completed by Bujones’ longtime friend and coach after his death in 2005, this volume recounts a major American success story. The book charts the dancer’s youth in Cuba and Florida, and his dazzling success at ballet competitions (the chapter on winning the gold at Varna was published in Dance Magazine first) and on international stages from Brazil to Copenhagen.

Autobiography format

Much space is devoted to Bujones’ brilliant and controversially abbreviated career at American Ballet Theatre in the Baryshnikov era, with the evidence laid before us like a legal brief. Bujones’ final years, directing the Orlando Ballet with much success, found an artist at peace with himself.

The portrait emerges