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Oct. 23, 2019
Michael K Dane
Biography
Michael K. Dane
Author’s Bio
I was born in San Francisco in 1954 and raised amid the tangle that was the racial tension of the late 1950's and 1960's. I was trained in the classic Russian Ballet by Dimitri Romanoff, moved to New York on a prestigious scholarship with the School of American Ballet at the Julliard School and later, American Ballet Theatre.
I was recruited to the Iranian National Ballet in 1976, but in the wake of the frightful events leading up to the toppling of the Shah of Iran, I fled Tehran over the Turkish mountains, a fugitive of the state.
After returning home I searched for a more personal means of expression. I danced with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, en travesti, and created an infamous persona of a beautiful and talented lesbian dancer named Peg, a very real personality. I performed in the avant-garde theater of the East and West Villages in a time when mind-altering drugs forged a unique bond between audience, writer and performer.
A chance elevator encounter brought me back to Paris with a recording contract where I met a young, unknown, Madonna Ciccone. Madonna and I made a little movie together called A Certain Sacrifice.
In Europe I found my voice and over three years, wrote and recorded my music, released three albums ...music of truly dangerous proportion.
In later years I turned to acting, the long list of credits is easily accessed on IMDB. I studied with Uta Hagen while she was writing her famous book A Challenge for the Actor. After it's completion, Uta presented me with a copy ... inscribed simply, "To Michael, Bravo! - Love, Uta"
I have always kept a journal of the extraordinary events of my life and was so often asked to recount one or more stories from my past. In the retelling of those events I was forever faced with the inevitable tailoring of those stories to fit the dinner or audience at hand ...never a lie but never the whole truth either, so I chose finally to write my autobiography and tell the whole truth.
Author’s Bio
I was born in San Francisco in 1954 and raised amid the tangle that was the racial tension of the late 1950's and 1960's. I was trained in the classic Russian Ballet by Dimitri Romanoff, moved to New York on a prestigious scholarship with the School of American Ballet at the Julliard School and later, American Ballet Theatre.
I was recruited to the Iranian National Ballet in 1976, but in the wake of the frightful events leading up to the toppling of the Shah of Iran, I fled Tehran over the Turkish mountains, a fugitive of the state.
After returning home I searched for a more personal means of expression. I danced with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, en travesti, and created an infamous persona of a beautiful and talented lesbian dancer named Peg, a very real personality. I performed in the avant-garde theater of the East and West Villages in a time when mind-altering drugs forged a unique bond between audience, writer and performer.
A chance elevator encounter brought me back to Paris with a recording contract where I met a young, unknown, Madonna Ciccone. Madonna and I made a little movie together called A Certain Sacrifice.
In Europe I found my voice and over three years, wrote and recorded my music, released three albums ...music of truly dangerous proportion.
In later years I turned to acting, the long list of credits is easily accessed on IMDB. I studied with Uta Hagen while she was writing her famous book A Challenge for the Actor. After it's completion, Uta presented me with a copy ... inscribed simply, "To Michael, Bravo! - Love, Uta"
I have always kept a journal of the extraordinary events of my life and was so often asked to recount one or more stories from my past. In the retelling of those events I was forever faced with the inevitable tailoring of those stories to fit the dinner or audience at hand ...never a lie but never the whole truth either, so I chose finally to write my autobiography and tell the whole truth.
Where to find Michael K Dane online
Website: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19590843.Michael_K_Dane
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Where to buy in print
Books
HomoAmerican - The Secret Society
by Michael K Dane
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 242,420.
Language:
English.
Published: October 23, 2019
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Categories:
Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Politics & society
HomoAmerican presents another society -- a Secret Society - of people who have grown up and survived, despite a world where lies of omission shape our destiny and keep us apart. who, despite the dangers, lived defiantly and openly through those dark times, we wander along dangerous paths in search our own.
I was given a gift when I was born an empty mirror and a challenge to become visible!!!