The Cage: Dancing for Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine, 1949-1954

At 14 years old, the youngest dancer in the New York City Ballet, Barbara Bocher has, after six decades, at last revealed her electrifying story of persecution, today called child abuse. Surviving a near brush with death, she appeared on such stages as the Paris Opera and La Scala. Her autobiography, The Cage, will be compelling reading for all those intrigued by embattled innocence, passion and psychosis.