by Sophie Bress | Sep 10, 2024 | News, The Latest
Royal Ballet School alum turned English teacher Lucy Ashe draws from both aspects of herself in her writing. Her love for ballet, as well as her command of the English language, shine in her latest novel, The Sleeping Beauties (Union Square & Co.). Set for a...
by Katherine Beard | Aug 30, 2024 | News, The Latest
Many stars of the dance world have shared their journeys through books, chronicling their glamorous or fairytale-like rise from student to premier ballet dancer. Rarely, if ever, do we read stories from the corps de ballet, despite the fact that the majority of ballet...
by Martha Anne Toll | Apr 17, 2024 | News, The Latest
Ballet-book lovers are in for a treat this spring with the release of Karen Valby’s The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Penguin Random House, $29). Valby’s book, out April 30,...
by Emma Love Suddarth | Nov 9, 2023 | News, The Latest
Miriam Landis has worn a lot of hats: Dancer at Miami City Ballet. Stanford graduate with a BA in English. Assistant editor in New York City. Ballet teacher in Seattle. And now, three-time author. Following her two previous books—Girl in Motion and Girl on Pointe,...
by Martha Anne Toll | Apr 12, 2022 | News, The Latest
Toni Bentley reached ballet’s heights as part of the last group of New York City Ballet dancers to work with George Balanchine. Even before a hip injury forced her into early retirement, she had penned Winter Season: A Dancer’s Journal, a beautiful take on daily life...
by Abigail Rasminsky For Dance Spirit | Dec 1, 2020 | News, The Latest
The pilot of Netflix’s dance-centric series “Tiny Pretty Things”—based on the YA novel by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton—will leave you breathless. It touches on, well, everything: love, murder, racism, competition, jealousy, girl...
by Marina Harss | Nov 1, 2017 | Career, Profiles
On November 7, David Hallberg’s highly anticipated memoir, A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back, will be available in bookstores. (It’s currently available for pre-order from Simon & Schuster and various other retailers.) Published by...