Fierce and Delicate : Essays on Dance and Illness /

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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
Autor principal: Nicholson, Renee K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nicholson, Renee K.
Rheumatoid arthritis > Patients.
Ballet dancers.
Rheumatoid arthritis > Patients > United States > Biography.
Ballet dancers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • A woman Ttthered 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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