What is an everyday ballerina? A luminous new memoir tells all.
Gavin Larsen in Asheville, N.C., May 15, 2021. Larsen has written a memoir, Being a Ballerina, from the perspective of what she calls an everyday, or a blue-collar, ballerina. Clark Hodgin/The New York Times.
by Gia Kourlas
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Gavin Larsen said she first felt like a writer in 2015 at an artists residency in New Mexico. She was there not as a dancer, but to work on a book about her dancing career. And she was surrounded by musicians, writers and visual artists who didnt know a thing about ballet.