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"In Fierce and Delicate, she looks back on the often confused and driven self she had been shaped into and finds beauty in the small roles she performed. When, inevitably, Nicholson moved on from dancing, severed from her first love by illness, she discovered that she retained the lyricism and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nicholson, Renée K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Nicholson, Renée K.
Nicholson, Renee K.
Rheumatoid arthritis > Patients > United States > Biography.
Ballet dancers > United States > Biography.
Polyarthrite rhumatoïde > Patients > États-Unis > Biographies.
Danseurs de ballet > États-Unis > Biographies.
Rheumatoid arthritis > Patients.
Ballet dancers.
United States.
Autobiography
Biography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I, A girl who wanted to fly
  • When I was a mouse
  • Five positions
  • Never famous
  • Raked stages : a twelve-step program
  • Coda : partnering
  • Out of the blue
  • Part II, A woman Tethered to the Earth
  • Hair : a short history
  • In sickness
  • A royal in Appalachia
  • Certified : dancer becomes a teacher
  • Claque
  • Fierce and delicate
  • Six impossible things before breakfast

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