Edition:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780571238927
Published:
06.10.2011
No of pages:
224
Other Editions: Paperback
The Everyday Dancer
Deborah Bull
The Everyday Dancer is a new and honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand experience of the profession. Structured around the daily schedule, The Everyday Dancer goes behind the velvet curtain, the gilt and the glamour to uncover the everyday realities of a career in dance. Starting out with the obligatory daily ‘class’, the book progresses through the repetition of rehearsals, the excitement of creating new work, the nervous tension of the half hour call, the pressures of performance and the anti-climax of curtain down.
Through this vivid portrait of a dancer’s every day, Deborah Bull reveals the arc of a dancer’s life: from the seven-year-old’s very first ballet class, through training, to company life, up through the ranks from
corps de ballet
to principal and then, not thirty years after it all began, to retirement and the inevitable sense of loss that comes with saying goodbye to your childhood dreams.
A unique perspective from behind the footlights,
The Everyday Dancer
is a vibrant and compelling picture of a life in the day of a dancer.
Tags
Categorised as:
Music, Stage & Screen
Sub-categories:
Classical Music
Genres & Themes:
Dance;
Memoir;
Ballet;
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