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Mar.30.2013
Life Among Giants, by Bill Roorbach
I bought this book with fingers crossed. Usually when I buy a book I don’t really know much about or an author I’ve never read, I hedge my bets and buy the e-book version. So buying this one in hardback was an article of faith. But this time my crossed fingers...
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Dec.19.2012
Enchanting and Heart Wrenching
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan is now available in Canada and will be released January 10, 2013 in the United States. The tone of the book is set well by this quote from a French daily newspaper that introduces us to the first chapter—“No social...
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Jun.16.2012
I've been thinking about my ballet-dancing days today. As some of you know, before I was a writer, I was a professional ballet dancer, a career I loved to the moon and back; the stage also taught me a great deal I would use on the page--about rhythm, pacing, arc, tempo, movement, stamina,...
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Jan.27.2012
Sergei Polunin is just twenty-one and was the youngest ever principal at the Royal Ballet. Yet this week he resigned with immediate effect.
You simply smile at the fact that half your colleagues sport a ridiculous moustache – ‘Grow your moustache to save the rainforest’. So what, if at this very...
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Sep.26.2011
Pitch perfect: Edward Watson as Gregor in Metamorphosis performed in The Linbury Studio Photo: ©Alastair Muir
The Metamorphosis, Linbury Studio, Seven magazine reviewEdward Watson excels in Arthur Pita's new version of Kafka's Metamorphosis, a tale that's tailor-made for...
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Jul.14.2011
At 93 Therrell Camille Smith keeps everyone on their toes. She’s still teaching ballet in a school she established 60 plus years ago in her hometown of Washington D.C. Read more about this amazing woman on my blog Living in the Heartland.
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Jan.27.2011
A writer needs to enter the characters in his novel. I’ve talked about this with other writers, but also found it useful to discuss it with artists from other fields. Two movies I saw in the last week, “Black Swan” and “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town,” illustrate just why...
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Dec.12.2010
Black Swan
Staring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Ksenia Solo, and more...
Premise: Nina finally gets her big break with the ballet troop when she is chosen to play the Swan Queen in Swan Lake. And she wants her performance to be PERFECT.
Review: I...
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Dec.02.2010
Melina Marchiano was a happy thirteen year old, academically at the top of her class, enjoying dancing six days a week and enjoying life, when suddenly her world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with “Hodgkin Lymphoma”.
As Melina shared with us during the show, in some ways to finally...
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Nov.20.2010
I’m probably the last person to try the latest fitness trend sweeping the nation: Zumba. It’s one part aerobics and one part Latin dance. This morning, I went with my daughter’s Girl Scout Senior troop to try a class. What I didn’t let on is that I worked my way through college teaching aerobics...
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