Saturday, July 31

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A story on the newly formed Perth Youth Ballet.

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In this mid-COVID-19 pandemic period, Jackson has made a seismic change, retiring from The Australian Ballet and returning home to mentor children from all around WA.

 

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An interview with Georgina Pazcoguin.

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The Altoona, Pa., native — the daughter of an ER surgeon and a housewife — raises the curtain on her booze-soaked nights at an Upper West Side dive bar and hangover-induced spills. She exposes the male colleague who thought nothing of ­casually tweaking her nipples and admits to regrets over an affair she had with Candace Bushnell’s then-husband-dancer, Charles Askegard, that ended up on Page Six. (Pazcoguin doesn’t name him in the book.)

 

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A review of Megan Abbott's new ballet-themed novel, "The Turnout," by Suzanne Berne in The Washington Post.

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There’s her brother-in-law, the pallidly handsome Charlie, an injured ex-dancer — who was once the Nutcracker Prince — and her mother’s former protege, for whom Marie has problematic feelings. But after a fire at the school necessitates repairs on one studio, a new romantic interest leaps onstage: The huge, smarmy Derek, a fast-talking contractor who persuades Charlie, the Durants’ business manager, to agree to a major and expensive renovation. Derek is repulsively fascinating, with his power tools, “his too-tight dress shirts, his dual phones, his throbbing beeper,” and obviously a rat. Marie is smitten.