Transcending Boundaries

"Transcending Boundaries" is an autobiography tracing the multifaceted and wide-ranging career of choreographer, director, performer and professor of dance, Donald McKayle. His chance meeting with the legendary Bill Robinson, who obligingly responded to the entreaties of a nine-year-old and executed an impromptu version of his infectious stair tap-dance, and an electric encounter as a teenager sitting in a darkened theatre witnessing a performance by concert artist Pearl Primus, are key early experiences which bring about McKayle's life in dance, theatre, film, television, entertainment, and education. He learned at the feet of the masters, trained and developed some of the profession's top practitioners, and worked in theatres and studios around the world -- on Broadway, in Hollywood -- creating a repertoire of acclaimed masterworks. He experienced failure, success, love, marriage and family. Readers will find his autobiography a revelation in an ongoing and still evolving story.

Foreword by Charles L. Reinhart Introduction by Cleo Parker Robinson 1. Early Moments 2. The New Dance Group 3. Games 4. At the Feet of the Masters 5. Around the World 6. Rainbow Round My Shoulder 7. District Storyville 8. Lea 9. Starting Over 10. Hollywood 11. Raisin 12. At Home Abroad 13. The Broadway Banana Peel 14. Artist Professor