Allegra Kent taking ballet. After graduating, she joined the New York City Ballet in 1953 at the age of 15, and was promoted to principal in 1957. Many roles in George Balanchine's ballets were created for her, including "Seven Deadly Sins", "Ivesiana" and "Bugaku". She danced the role of Dewdrop in the 1958 Playhouse 90 telecast of Balanchine's version of "The Nutcracker". She performed in such ballets as "Serenade", "Agon" and "Dances at a Gathering". She retired in 1981, becoming a ballet teacher, and in 1997 published an autobiography, "Once a Dancer". In 2012, Kent published her first book for children, "Ballerina
Allegra Huston Allegra Huston Allegra Huston (born 26 August 1964) is a writer and editor based in Taos, New Mexico. She is the author of "Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found", published in April 2009 by Simon & Schuster (US) and Bloomsbury (UK). Her first novel, "Say My Name", was published in July 2017 by HQ in the UK and in January 2018 by MIRA in the US. "Love Child" was praised by Simon Schama (author of "Citizens" and "Landscape and Memory") as "so bravely written, so clear and intensely vivid, so unsentimentally honest, so deeply humane," and by