At the height of fame, Rudi van Dantzig was one of the hottest choreographers around and the Dutch National Ballet, the company he directed for more than two decades, was acclaimed as a cauldron of creative energy. Yet, in the tributes paid to him since

Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca will be published Dec. 3 by Cormorant Books. On Jan. 2, 1967, Canada’s then-minister of national defence, Paul Hellyer, received a most urgent and unusual telephone call. On the line was Celia Franca, foundin