Robb, Alice
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
- ISBN 13:
- 9780861547333
- author:
- Robb, Alice
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- ONEWorld Publications
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Biography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Ballet has long been synonymous with beauty, thinness and obedience. Yet, for many women who dance, it is also a crucible of womanhood, marked by harassment, physical abuse and eating disorders. Alice Robb's memoir explores the complex relationship between ballet and feminism in the 21st century. Through her own experiences at America's most elite ballet school, as well as those of renowned ballerinas throughout history, Robb interrogates the all-consuming nature of the form: its obsessive practices, the idealisation of suffering and the struggle for control. Yet she also reveals the liberating potential of ballet, where dancers can find a sense of full embodiment and sanctuary from the pressures of the outside world. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, Don't Think, Dear offers a nuanced and insightful examination of classical ballet, filtered through the lens of 21st-century feminism.
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