 Memoirs in toe shoes.
Author: Segal, Erna Published: 2004 From the beginning, Erna Segal (née Grabler) wanted to be a dancer. Born in Prague in 1938, she gave her first performance when she was three and by the age of twelve had left Czechoslovakia with Jonny Johnson, a man thirty years her senior, Together they became the overnight international dance team sensation 'Chiquita and Johnson'. Memoirs in toe shoes takes us on a fantastic journey from a small country first controlled by the Nazis and then by Communists through Europe and via the Middle East, Mexico and Cuba to the USA, where the duo received ever increasing acclaim. |
