Transcending boundaries : my dancing life

This is an autobiography tracing the multifaceted and wide-ranging career of chroreographer, director, performer and professor of dance, Donald McKayle.

His chance meeting with the legendary Bill Robinson, who obligingly responded to the entreaties of an adoring nine-year-old and executed an impromptu version of his infections stair tap-dance, and an electric encounter as a teenager sitting in a darkened theatre witnessing a performance by concert artists Pearl Primus, are key early experiences which bring about McKayle's life in dance, theate, film, television, entertainment, and education.He learned at the feet of the masters, trained and eveloped some of the profession's top practitioners, worked in theatres and studios around the world, on Broadway, in Hollywood, creating a repetoire of acclaimed masterworks.

He experienced failure, success, love, marriage and family.