Not Without Tears: A Life Lived Onstage

Why do ballet dancers move us so? What does a dancer take onto the stage and offer us so that we––as the audience––may laugh, cry, or be left breathless?

As the first Austrian to win the coveted Prix de Lausanne, Principal Dancer Rainer Krenstetter developed a successful European classical ballet career before suddenly leaving it all behind to move to Miami City Ballet to learn to dance Balanchine the American way.

In his memoir Not Without Tears - A Life Lived Onstage, Rainer collaborated with British photographer Jason Ashwood to share heartfelt insight into his life's challenges offstage, the rigours of rehearsals, and reveals why love, and loss, shaped his onstage persona.