Born in Bucuresti, but her mother was from Bessarabia. The book is divided into chronological chapters based upon where Eva's adventures have taken her. From Bucuresti to the United States as an immigrant and then, as a married woman, back to Europe and Asia where she found her professional calling. Conversational in tone, the book provides a fascinating insight into Eva's encounters with some of the main players in dance and theatre from the 1940s to the 1990s. She studied, danced and worked with so many notable people. These include dance professor, mentor and editor Louis Horst; English ballerinas Moira Shearer and Margot Fonteyn; American choreographer Alvin Ailey and countless others. In short, an incredible assortment of names that dance enthusiasts will recognise crop up in this memoir. A whirlwind our- ney at times, Eva modestly recalls her experiences and explains how she came to be the prolific producer of more than one hundred different theatrical programmes. While she and her husband, Oscar were living in India, she was asked by a friend to help coordinate some dancers and musicians on atrip to perform there. Not only did she manage it successfully by organizing flights and facilities, she enjoyed it. This soon led to more and more opportunities until she was one of the biggest names inthebusiness, introducing companies like Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and American Ballet Theater to the world and even producing a massiveevent with the 1972 Summer Olympics.