The Costs and Contradictions of Ballet
Alice Robb’s Don’t Think, Dear and Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s What You Become in Flight explore both the liberating sense of art and the domineering logic of ballet.
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Alice Robb’s Don’t Think, Dear and Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s What You Become in Flight explore both the liberating sense of art and the domineering logic of ballet.
Alice Robb talks about her new book which lays bare the entrenched misogyny and predatory culture at the heart of the ballet world
"I wanted bunions, blisters, bleeding toenails, and I envied the girls who bruised more easily," Alice Robb writes in her book about being a child ballerina.
In these semi-post pandemic YOLO days, adults are pursuing hobbies like ballet, embarrassment be damned.
Alice Robb brings analysis, intelligence and a feminist lens to her new book "Don't Think Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet."