In 1981, after the wedding of the century, Anne Allan, a dancer, and ballet mistress with the London City Ballet, was offered an unusual assignment. Her Royal Highness Diana, the Princess of Wales, wanted dance lessons. Would Anne be her teacher? 

A Body of Work is written in an engaging style, and Hallberg’s personality comes across vividly on every page.

Ballet Novels for Spring 2024

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

Christmas means only one thing for Ballet Companies around the world and that is the marathon that is Nutcracker season. I've had my own...

Pas de Don't is Chloe Angyal's debut novel, her first book Turning Pointe examined the racial, gender and class inequities within ballet...

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...

This candid memoir opens a fascinating window on the emotive journey of a ballet mum, the mother of Yasmine Naghdi, Principal ballerina...

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...

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 a child John Curry wanted to study ballet, but his Father refused, however skating was permitted and one only has to look at Curry's...

Well, more of a project than a book this month, but as Ballet Companies around the world are preparing for the marathon that is...

Firstly, apologies for the absence of September's Book and Film of the Month, this was due to technical problems, which have now be...

"Étonnez-moi" Diaghilev would insist to his company.....'Astonish me'. Maggie Shipstead's novel spans three decades and is told from...

Patrick Swayze was an actor who found fame in the TV series 'North and South' and the cinema box office hits 'Ghost', 'Point Break' and,...

During a period of thirteen months from August 1986 to September 1987, John Fraser was given unlimited access to ABT and this is a...