Set in the glamorous, seductive world of ballet, Hamrick's erotically charged novel sees ballerina Sylvie embark on a passionate and...

Autobiography of Lynn Seymour CBE

Serenade by Toni Bentley ​ At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City...

The untold history of women's exercise culture, from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda. Author of The Cut's viral article shared...

'Swan Dive is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential was to restaurants, a chance to go behind the serene front of house...

The first rule of Ballet Book Club, is you don't talk about Ballet Book Club and I think it's fair to say that was definitely the case in...

Achille Perrot, tyrannical founder of New York's Perrot Ballet, controls his dancer's hearts as well as their bodies, but now his magic...

Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with Ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at...

Deborah Bull joined The Royal Ballet School at the age of eleven, graduating into the company in 1981; over the next twenty years she...

As dancers, we know why we love ballet—but for a new audience member, our beautiful, silent art form may seem like a mystery. Enter...

"Étonne-moi" Diaghilev famously challenged Jean Cocteau.....'Astonish me'. ​ From the prize-winning author of Seating Arrangements comes...

The rags-to-riches story of one of the world’s greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of...

Gelsey Kirkland's 1986 autobiography caused a fair amount of controversy when it was first published, chronicling her professional and...