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Author: Gavin Larsen
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9780813066899
ISBN 10: 0813066891
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 April 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A luminous new memoir. . . . Poignant . . . Both a personal account and a universal take on the life of a professional ballet dancer. -New York Times There is power and perfection in this captivating memoir - the power of personal experience and the perfection of writing that carefully captures the life of a dancer ... In this memoir Larsen is writing full out, and we are the lucky audience of her performance. Balletomanes, dance students, and aspiring dancers will applaud this absorbing account. - Library Journal
There is power and perfection in this captivating memoir - the power of personal experience and the perfection of writing that carefully captures the life of a dancer ... In this memoir Larsen is writing full out, and we are the lucky audience of her performance. Balletomanes, dance students, and aspiring dancers will applaud this absorbing account. - Library Journal
“A luminous new memoir. . . . Poignant . . . Both a personal account and a universal take on the life of a professional ballet dancer.”—New York Times“ ""There is power and perfection in this captivating memoir - the power of personal experience and the perfection of writing that carefully captures the life of a dancer … In this memoir Larsen is writing full out, and we are the lucky audience of her performance. Balletomanes, dance students, and aspiring dancers will applaud this absorbing account.""—Library Journal “A personal chronicle of a professional dancing life that is as accessible as it is engaging.”—Christian Science Monitor “Being a Ballerina floats along like a lovely adagio solo; we both feel a dancer’s constant pain and share the magical soar of a perfect lift. Reading it is a reminder that words can dance too.”—Seattle Times
Author Information
Gavin Larsen was a professional ballet dancer for 18 years before retiring in 2010. A principal dancer with the Oregon Ballet Theatre, she also danced with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and Alberta Ballet and as a guest artist with Ballet Victoria. She has written for Pointe, Dance Teacher, Dance Spirit, Dancing Times, Oregon ArtsWatch, Dance/USA's From The Green Room, the Maine Review, and The Threepenny Review, among others. She writes and teaches in Asheville, North Carolina.
