Gamzatti

When the New York Ballet Grand Company announces a grand new production of La Bayadère, every ballerina dreams of one role: Gamzatti - the proud princess, dazzling and untouchable. It is a part reserved for stars.

No one expects it to be given to a newcomer.

Yolanda Duprinna arrives in Manhattan carrying a past as layered as her technique. Born to a Finnish father and a Chicago-born mother, trained at the Paris Opera summer program, forged by three intense years at the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg, and seasoned in Houston and Boston, she is young - yet already marked by discipline, sacrifice, and mystery.

Her beauty is luminous. Her control breathtaking. Her silence unsettling.

When she is cast as Gamzatti, admiration turns to jealousy overnight. Whispers follow her through mirrored studios and velvet corridors. She has taken the crown - and soon, she captures the attention of Lucas Andrade, the company's golden principal, desired by every dancer.

But Yolanda's heart is drawn elsewhere - to Adam Carter, a perceptive and quietly confident theater employee who sees beyond the spotlight. As ambition turns to obsession and rivalry spills offstage, Yolanda finds herself at the center of a dangerous triangle where power, pride, and love collide.

Set against the glittering intensity of Manhattan and the unforgiving world of professional ballet, Gamzatti is a story of ambition, loyalty, and choosing who you become when the applause fades.

Because sometimes the greatest role a woman can claim
is her own.