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littlescorpiondreams · 1 year

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Look how beautiful this is!!!

My characters, Grace and the Master, from my adult fantasy novel, NOCTURNE (2/21, Del Rey Books) painted by @winterofherdiscontent <3 <3

I seriously can't stop staring at this. It's such a wonderful feeling to see my characters outside of my own head! Like, that's them! Right there! In front of my face! They've lived for so long in my imagination and now they're real! I love it so much.

If you are interested in preordering the book (less than a month until the release date!), you can purchase it anywhere books are sold in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. Spanish translation coming soon! And for my American friends, it is on sale at Barnes & Noble. NOCTURNE is a B&N Bookseller Favorite. :) Here is their bookseller note:

Nocturne is a rich, lush fairy-tale reimagining that brings together elements of Beauty & the Beast, Phantom of the Opera and Persephone against the backdrop of the ballet world in Depression-era Chicago. With lyrical prose, romance, mystery and magic, this atmospheric fantasy is an enchanting read that will keep you in suspense till the very end.

I hope you'll consider adding it to your TBR :)

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balanchine-ballet-master · 1 year

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Memoir by Peter Boal

Peter Boal has a memoir coming out on May 23 called Illusions of Camelot. The publisher, Beaufort Books, has this summary:

From the artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet comes an unforgettable memoir about one artist’s journey from boyhood to ballet.

Peter’s story starts in the pastoral and privileged town of Bedford, New York: a rare enclave 40 miles north of New York City where private schools, country clubs, and families hold their own rules and secrets. Within the town, views of race, morality, and sexuality are unspoken yet evident. Meanwhile, at home, Peter and his family are left to grapple with his father’s alcoholism and untimely death. As a young boy finding his way, Peter soon turns to ballet. Ultimately his passion becomes a beacon, leading him to work at the New York City Ballet as a teenager, living on his own while discovering the pitfalls and pleasures Manhattan has to offer.

Throughout Peter’s deeply personal work, you’ll meet Hattie Lindsay, Peter’s caregiver, whose love for Peter matches her disdain for Henry, the family dog. You’ll step onto the club house floor during ballroom dancing lessons in Bedford, into the studios of the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center, and onto the stage in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker as Peter performs the title role of the Nutcracker Prince. For all the laughter these stories offer, gravity is everywhere. Moments by Balanchine’s hospital bedside, or in the AIDS-ravaged ward at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital as a loved one’s life passes away are told with painful honesty and raw hurt.

Peter’s journey takes us to the start of a storied career as a dancer with the New York City Ballet and leaves us with insights into the unique path of an artist and individual shaped by environment, circumstance, and family.

#Balanchine #Peter Boal #New York City Ballet #NYCB #Pacific Northwest Ballet #ballet #ballet memoirs #ballet books

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2000snotebook · 1 year

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AU!Ryan and AU!Simon are probably the most important people in AU!Grace’s life. Ironically Ryan and Simon do not really get along all that well and are typically at odds.

Like Yes we have a common person we deeply care about no I will not forget that time you tried to beat the shit out of me when we were kids we exist

#TCAU rambles #gilded allegro #ballet books #firestrings

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yourcoffeeguru · 1 year

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Program Stuttgart Ballet Kennedy Centre and Metropolitan Opera 1979 Collectable // Shop- autradingpost

#ballet program #photography #ballet books #books #souvenir programme #autradingpost

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laurenillustrated · 4 months

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Sugar Plum Fairy 🍬

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sonyabrightbooks · 2 years

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Ballet Class (Meet Ella #5) by Rebecca McRitchie and Danielle McDonald

Ella wants to be a ballerina! But she is a bit worried about her first ballet class. What if she does something wrong? What if everyone sees?

The former ballet dancer in me loved this one. I remember my first ballet class very well because I went with a friend who spent the entire time scared and crying! She didn’t last long, but I went all the way…

Something I appreciate about these books is that they can be unashamedly girly at the same time as being progressive. There’s no need for a “not like other girls” mentality. Ella can love ballet and sparkles as well as other things.

I enjoyed the illustrations in this one, especially the way Ella was drawn when she was nervous. It was really easy to relate to.

I loved the free dancing part at the end. It was always my favourite thing when I was younger. I also loved the funny ways different children chose to dance.

One little nit-pick: male dancers aren’t called “ballerinas”. I do understand that this is as early reader, and so the language can’t get too complicated, but that’s a particular mistake so many outside the ballet world make, so I always notice! (And you never stretch before warming up! That’s dangerous!)

However, children will be able to relate to this book. It would make a great present for a child just starting dance.

#children's books #kidlit #rebecca mcritchie #danielle mcdonald #early reader #children's fiction #ballet books #book re #books

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edwardian-masquerade · 1 year

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"At the end of Swan Lake, when she left the stage in her great white tutu, I would follow her to the end of the world." -Rudolf Nureyev

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ledalife · 4 months

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moodboard: theatre student

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whencartoonsruletheworld · 4 months

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anyway just saying. bambi should get a ballet adaptation

#book v? disney v? yes #bambi #ballet #mine

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ohmycavalier · 4 months

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A page from a book I illustrated a few years ago "The Night Before The Nutcracker", 2022

#illustration #children's book illustration #childrensbooks #the nutcracker #ballet #holidays #gouache illustration

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mystery-pixels · 3 months

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am i entering my CAS era 😳

#sims 3 #black sims #ts3 #sims 3 cas #ts3 ballet #sims 3 ballet #black simblr #black simmer #i cannot stress enough how much this is the sims 3 #hope u guys think they're cute too #i read a book about ballerinas so i was inspired #i think this is the closest i would come to making an oc lol

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littlescorpiondreams · 1 year

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I’m just a girl, shouting into the void, asking you to please check out my fantasy book NOCTURNE, coming out from Penguin Random House on 2/21/23, available now for preorder.

Synopsis:

In this haunting, evocative fantasy set in 1930s Chicago, a talented ballerina finds herself torn between her dreams and her desires when she’s pursued by a secretive patron who may be more than he seems.

“An enchanting and lyrical fever dream bursting with dazzling prose and dark romance, Nocturne enthralled me.”—Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows

Growing up in Chicago’s Little Sicily in the years following the Great War, Grace Dragotta has always wanted to be a ballerina, ever since she first peered through the windows of the Near North Ballet company. So when Grace is orphaned, she chooses the ballet as her home, imagining herself forever ensconced in a transcendent world of light and beauty so different from her poor, immigrant upbringing.

Years later, with the Great Depression in full swing, Grace has become the company’s new prima ballerina—though achieving her long-held dream is not the triumph she once envisioned. Time and familiarity have tarnished that shining vision, and her new position means the loss of her best friend in the world. Then she attracts the attention of the enigmatic Master La Rosa as her personal patron and realizes the world is not as small or constricted as she had come to fear.

Who is her mysterious patron, and what does he want from her? As Grace begins to unlock the Master’s secrets, she discovers that there is beauty in darkness as well as light, finds that true friendship cannot be broken by time or distance, and realizes there may be another way entirely to achieve the transcendence she has always sought.

✨Please support an awkward author doing her best to self promote by preordering or requesting the book at your local library. Thank you ✨

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balanchine-ballet-master · 2 years

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Books on Balanchine

I’ve been meaning to list as many of the Balanchine- and NYCB-related books as I can. This post is limited to biographies of Balanchine, memoirs of Balanchine, and biographies of those closely associated with him. (A few are by or about people who didn’t work with him but who talk about dancing his ballets.)

Later posts will list books relating to his ballets, his teaching, criticism, NYCB history and general, School of American Ballet, fiction (yes, there is some!), and maybe the Ballets Russes (Balanchine-related).

Balanchine Biographies Bethany, Reine Duell Balanchine—Russian-American Ballet Master Emeritus (author is the sister of Daniel and the late Joseph Duell)

Buckle, Richard George Balanchine, Ballet Master (friend of Balanchine’s)

Charles River Editors George Balanchine: The Life and Legacy of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Choreoraphers (80 pp.)

Costas Balanchine: Celebrating a Life in Dance (photos)

Gottlieb, Robert Balanchine: The Ballet Maker (concise)

Homans, Jennifer Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (Nov. 1, 2022)

Kendall, Elizabeth Balanchine and the Lost Muse

Krista, David George Balanchine: American Ballet Master (for children)

Portrait of Mr. B (photos, with introduction by Lincoln Kirstein)

Shearer, Moira Balletmaster (Royal Ballet ballerina who worked with Balanchine)

Taper, Bernard Balanchine: A Biography: With a New Epilogue

Teachout, Terry All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine (concise)

Memoirs of Balanchine Ashley, Merrill Dancing for Balanchine (ballerina, 1960s-1990s)

Bentley, Toni Winter Season (journal of a corps member from the 1970s)

Boal, Peter Illusions of Camelot (principal, 1980s-2000s) (Oct. 18, 2022)

Bocher, Barbara The Cage: Dancing for Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine 1949-1954 (soloist)

Clifford, John Balanchine’s Apprentice: From Hollywood to New York and Back (principal, 1970s)

Danilova, Alexandra Choura (second wife)

Farrell, Suzanne Holding on to the Air (ballerina, 1960s-1980s)

Fisher, Barbara Milberg In Balanchine’s Company (soloist, 1950s)

Geva, Tamara Split Seconds (first wife; wonderful book)

Hayden, Melissa Melissa Hayden, Offstage and On (ballerina, 1950s-1970s)

Karz, Zippora The Sugarless Plum (soloist, 1980s; title refers to her diabetes)

Kent, Allegra Once a Dancer (ballerina, 1950s-1980s)

Kirstein, Lincoln Mosaic

Kistler, Darci Ballerina: My Story (for children) (ballerina, 1980s-2010s)

Martins, Peter Far From Denmark (principal and NYCB director)

Martins, Peter and Steven Caras Balanchine: Photo Album and Memoir (mostly photos; 62 pp.) (Caras was a corps member, 1960s-1980s)

Mason, Francis I Remember Balanchine (hefty volume of reminiscences from all periods of Balanchine’s life)

Newman, Barbara Striking a Balance (interviews with Doubrovska, Lifar, Christensen, Youskevitch, Shearer, Nerina, Le Clercq, Mason, Kelly, Bonnefous, Martins, Ashley, Ananiashvili)

Newman, Barbara Grace Under Pressure (interviews with Schorer, Tomasson, Russell, Frohlich, Verdy, Denvers)

Ohman, Frank, and Emily Berkowitz Balanchine’s Dancing Cowboy (soloist, 1960s-1970s)

Patelson, Alice Portrait of a Dancer, Memories of Balanchine (corps, 1970s)

Soto, Jock Every Step You Take: A Memoir (principal, 1980s-1990s)

Tallchief, Maria, and Larry Kaplan Maria Tallchief, America’s Prima Ballerina (ballerina, 1950s-1960s)

Tracy, Robert Balanchine’s Ballerinas: Conversations with the Muses (interviews with Danilova, Geva, Doubrovska, Toumanova, Boris, Reiman, Marie-Jeanne, Moylan, Tallchief, Hayden, Adams, Kent, Verdy, McBride, Farrell, Mazzo, von Aroldingen, Ashley, Kistler)

Villella, Edward Prodigal Son (principal, 1950s-1980s)

Zorina, Vera Zorina (wife #3)

Biographies of Balanchine-Related People Duberman, Martin The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

Jowett, Deborah Jerome Robbins, His Life, His Theater, His Dance

Kavanagh, Julie Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton

Kavanagh, Julie Nureyev

Lawrence, Greg Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins

Leddick, David Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle

Lesser, Wendy Jerome Robbins, a Life in Dance

Lobenthal, Joel Wilde Times: Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet (ballerina, 1950s-1960s)

Osato, Sono Distance Dances (minor mentions)

Protopopescu, Orel Dancing Past the Light: The Life of Tanaquil Le Clercq (fifth and final wife; principal, 1940s-1950s)

Robbins, Jerome Jerome Robbins by Himself (letters, journals, drawings, etc.)

Sills, Bettijane Broadway, Balanchine, and Beyond: A Memoir (soloist, 1960s-1970s)

Vaill, Amanda Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins

West, Martha Ullman Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet (principals, 1940s-1950s)

#Balanchine #George Balanchine #ballet #New York City Ballet #books #ballet books #dancers #choreographer #dance #dancing #biography #memoirs

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2000snotebook · 1 year

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Simon is still working on his fantasy novel in Train Chasers. In fact, it’s partially inspired from the DND campaign I mentioned that he ran in high school! So far, his book only has one fan (Grace, who’s currently stuck on the foreword that she wrote ).

#TCAU rambles #ballet books

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yourcoffeeguru · 9 months

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Princess Tina Ballet Book 4 by Mike Davis H. Shirley Long HC 1971

#books #vintage books #ballet #ballet books #princess tina ballet #mike davis #autradingpost

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laurenillustrated · 5 months

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The Snow Queen and her Snowflakes! ❄️

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