Oh say, anyone dance out there? Ballet, specifically?

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As some of you know, I am writing a sequel to Red.  I've titled it ONE FALSE NOTE which absolutely fits Lee so well.  The other main character, Gevan, is a professional ballet dancer.  Am just curious if anyone on my list ever was a serious dance student, has suggestions for fics/biographies/whatever that would give me better insight to the inner world of dance, etc.   

I have a book on the way that was written by Mikhael Baryshnikov (in my user pic) , and another one about him, plus PRODIGAL SON, about Edward Villella.  Those three should help a great deal (plus what little I know of Rudolph Nureyev, as Nick and I learned via DANCER by Colum McCann.  I am going to reread that very unusual but marvelous book.

All helpful, but nothing would be better than having someone who has been involved to ask questions.  Probably not going to find anyone, I imagine...but hey, worth a shot, right?  Other books would be good too.

I am having so much fun with this fic. (see previous post--that applies here)  Am planning to go to the Ballet in March...dragging daughter with me. 

N is still up.  I am ready to go to bed, and he claims he is Not Tired!  Right.  Fine, I will go to bed, he can stay up.  Let's see, it is 5 o'clock in Germany...

In any case, done with the handwritten edits, now must transfer all onto the 20k, then it is time for more WORD WARS!!!!!!  :)

C

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That's how my sister was...she danced until she was 15, loved it, worshiped dancing but just wasn't good enough, whereas a friend of hers went on and did well professionally. That was never my interest, but since I was a tag-along, I had to go with mom to take her to lessons and sit and be quiet and wait. Gosh I just remembered that, and the studio, wooden floors (I think) and huge mirrors. Gale Corkery Ballet Studio. Long gone, now.

I looked at Amazon, and YES! That movie is really going to help. Thank you! Am so glad I put this up here. Thank you so much. I may holler, after I watch this.

It's Cleopatra. Intriguing! It's the Texas Ballet's last performance of the season, and is coming to Bass Hall here in downtown Fort Worth. Nick and I saw their first performance this season. Grin. That was so much fun. And inspiring! Cleopatra looks like it will be very different (oh yeah, just the costumes!) from anything I've seen. Could go see Swan Lake but have to drive too far for so late at night.

Ben Stevenson’s choreography breathes new life into the sweeping epic of Cleopatra,the most powerful woman in the world and the lover of both Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. Rich set designs by Thomas Boyd and costumes by Judanna Lynn help evoke the languor and sensuality of the Egyptian court and the bare-knuckled struggle for power in Rome.