Through the Lens of a Dancer — Steven Caras’s Long-Awaited Memoir
When the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary Steven Caras: See Them Dance concluded its run, something unexpected happened. The letters started arriving. Dozens of them, then more — readers, viewers, fans of dance — all with the same request: write the book.
Steven Caras listened.
Through the Lens of a Dancer, the memoir years in the making from the celebrated New York City Ballet dancer-turned-photographer, arrives September 15, 2026.
“Throughout the book, I dive a lot deeper than I was able to do in the documentary,” Caras recently shared. “Personal and professional milestones and setbacks are revealed in intimate detail, beginning with my mock-ridden childhood and struggles with sexuality, moving on to my days as a dancer under the leadership of ballet’s towering genius, George Balanchine . . . and well beyond. ” — Steven Caras
The story begins, as the most honest ones do, with resistance. A young Steven Caras told his mother plainly that “boys don’t do that” — and then spent a lifetime proving himself wrong in the most extraordinary way possible. Shaped by the genius of George Balanchine and forged among the finest dancers of his generation, Caras eventually traded the stage for the lens, becoming one of the most distinguished photographers in the history of the form.
The memoir that follows is equal parts candor and craft — a life examined with a photographer’s precision and told with a dancer’s instinct for timing.
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