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
Gabriele Allegra Allegra's most notable statements concerning the Poem of the Man-God reveal his ardent devotion to this work: Allegra was an active member of the Marian Movement of Priests and completed the translation of the writings of Father Stefano Gobbi into Chinese, shortly before he died. Allegra wrote two books, one on the primacy of Christ, the other on the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Heart. He started writing his memoirs in 1975, but died while working on them in Hong Kong in 1976. The Church of San Biaggio in Acireale, where he had entered the Franciscan seminary, holds some of his relics