Karen Kain - Karen Kain

With her talent, energy and beauty, Karen Kain has personified stardom in a country and a ballet company that does not encourage stardom. At the same time, she has attracted the admiration of international artists and critics everywhere.;Here, Kain tells her own story, from her training and her early days in the National Ballet of Canada, which culminated in the 1973 Moscow International Ballet Competition, from which she and Frank Augustyn returned as stars. She relates the exciting decades that followed, dancing as a guest artist, meeting the great names of the ballet world, and receiving international acclaim.;But she also writes about the fatigue, the uncertainty and depression, and the increasing introspection that led her to re-assess her life in the 1980s. Kain discusses these years, her growing sense of herself, her marriage and her insights into her roles. She shows how she has emerged as the artist of depth and maturity that she is today.