Fierce and Delicate Essays on Dance and Illness / Renee K. Nicholson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Renée K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nicholson, Renee K.

Rheumatoid arthritis--Patients.

Rheumatoid arthritis.

Ballet dancers.

Rheumatoid arthritis--Patients--United States--Biography.

Ballet dancers--United States--Biography.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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 narrative of ballet itself as she negotiated life with rheumatoid arthritis. An intentionally fractured memoir-in-essays, Fierce and Delicate navigates traditional geographies-South Florida, Northern Michigan, New York City, Milwaukee, West Virginia-and also geographies of the body. It is a book about the world of professional dance and also about living with chronic disease, about being shattered yet realizing the power to assemble oneself again, in a new way"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781952271014

1952271010

OCLC:

1246145211