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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.
Gavin Larsen Releases New Memoir BEING A BALLERINA
Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer.by BWW News Desk
Gavin Larsen has announced the release of her new memoir, Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life, published by the University Press of Florida in April 2021.
A look inside a dancer s world.Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer s continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist.
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