Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
By: Alice Robb
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas de…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Another study, this one by doctors at Imperial College in London, found a neurological anomaly: the area of the cerebellum that receives signals from the 'balance organs" in the inner ear and converts them into feelings of dizziness was visibly smaller in ballet dancers. Through years of practicing turns, they had trained their brains to suppress the sensation of dizziness."-Alice Robb, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
"Another study, this one by doctors at Imperial College in London, found a neurological anomaly: the area of the cerebellum that receives signals from the 'balance organs" in the inner ear and converts them into feelings of dizziness was visibly smaller in ballet dancers. Through years of practicing turns, they had trained their brains to suppress the sensation of dizziness."-Alice Robb, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
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1. Dancing on My Grave
By: Greg Lawrence , Gelsey Kirkland
3.86
Format: 363 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The shattering story of a dream which became a heartbreaking nightmare for one of America's most fa… read more
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2. Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal
By: Toni Bentley
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
An irresistible inside look at one of the world's great dance companies, Winter Season is also a se… read more
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3. Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
By: Jennifer Homans
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year For more than four hundred years,… read more
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4. The Cranes Dance
By: Meg Howrey
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night. So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a solo… read more
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5. Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, & My Midlife Quest to Dance The Nutcracker
By: Lauren Kessler
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw Th… read more
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6. Bunheads
By: Sophie Flack
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
As a dancer with the ultra-prestigious Manhattan Ballet Company, nineteen-year-old Hannah Ward jugg… read more
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7. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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8. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
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"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
9. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
By: Gracie Gold
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more
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10. Center Center: A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet
By: James Whiteside
3.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A daring, hilarious, and inspiring memoir-in-essays from the American Ballet Theatre principal danc… read more
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11. Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
By: Jennifer Homans
4.33
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - "A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst… read more
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12. Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
By: Alice Robb
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"Another study, this one by doctors at Imperial College in London, found a neurological anomaly: the area of the cerebellum that receives signals from the 'balance organs" in the inner ear and convert…"-Alice Robb, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
13. The Ballerina Mindset: How to Protect Your Mental Health While Striving for Excellence
By: Megan Fairchild
3.96
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Learn how to thrive in intense, competitive environments with these secrets from one of America's p… read more
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14. Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina
By: Georgina Pazcoguin
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives reade… read more
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15. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more
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16. Dances
By: Nicole Cuffy
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and lyrical debut novel follows a trailblazing Black ballerina who must reconcile the… read more
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"The truth is, sometimes I wanted him gone. He frightened me a little, my brother. As much as I loved him, I knew something was wrong with him. I knew he did drugs, but there was always something else…"-Nicole Cuffy, Dances
"The truth is, sometimes I wanted him gone. He frightened me a little, my brother. As much as I loved him, I knew something was wrong with him. I knew he did drugs, but there was always something else…"-Nicole Cuffy, Dances
17. The Dance of the Dolls
By: Lucy Ashe
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara M… read more
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"Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?"-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls
"Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant."-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls
"I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art."-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls
"He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last."-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls
18. Serenade: A Balanchine Story
By: Toni Bentley
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells … read more
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19. Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself
By: Chloe Angyal
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, ra… read more
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20. The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson
By: Misty Copeland
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland, a heartfelt memoir … read more
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21. Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece
By: Camille Laurens
3.46
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas's now-iconic scul… read more
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