Don't think, dear : on loving & leaving ballet

Description

Weaving together her own time at America's most elite ballet school with the lives of renowned ballerinas throughout history, Alice Robb interrogates what it means to perform ballet today. She confronts the all-consuming nature of the form: the obsessive and dangerous practices to perfect the body, the embrace of submission and the idealisation of suffering.

Content

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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Mr. B -- A Very Extreme Sense of Escape and Control -- Little Rats -- Brought Up to Turn Off -- Just Try to Look Nice, Dear -- Crown of Thorns -- They Make You Feel Like an Hourglass -- Brains in Their Toes -- Reverence -- Acknowledgments -- Recommendations for Further Reading and Viewing -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright Page