Eleonora abbagnato dance quotes
The day after the event, Abbagnato apparently attempted to blame the dancers for her (I quote from the letter) “unspeakable outburst....
Her youth makes any observations about her life seem superfluous, perhaps intrusive.
Like most young dancers who reach this level of competence, she started early, in the Palermo school of Marisa Benassai. A ballerina's education begins but never truly ends as long as she is still performing. Typically, the formative years, often at the age of eight or ten, are the most difficult.
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During that impressionable phase, asked to execute a complicated movement, Eleanora once responded, "I'll do it when I know that I can do it well." Hard-headed, but for a good dancer, perfectionism is second nature.
Considering the process, exceptional talent usually reveals itself by the time a girl is thirteen. Always exceptional, Eleonora was fortunate enough to have an equally exceptional instructor, who encouraged the Abbagnatos to enroll their fourteen year-old daughter as a student of the quasi-legendary Parisian Claude Golovine-Bessy.
This meant a new home, a
