Frederick

“Frederick wanted to dance—he wanted nothing but to dance—and he danced like no one else. He completed his craft, brought it to an end by becoming perfect. (…) The most beautiful things are just beautiful enough to be destroyed.”

He practiced obsessively, danced with incredible devotion—and became the greatest tap dancer the world has ever seen: Fred Astaire. He embodied the pinnacle of an art form that vanished with him. He strove for perfection, elegance, and beauty—and yet, as imagined by Perikles Monioudis, he spent his life fending off a near-demonic companion who kept urging him to stop.
Monioudis tells the story of a great artist—his path from small-town America to London, Broadway, and Hollywood—and of his proud resistance to the fleeting nature of fame.