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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 29 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Hillary Huber. |
| Summary |
With a promising career in classical ballet ahead of her, Ellen O'Connell Whittet was devastated when a misstep in rehearsal caused a career-ending injury. Ballet was the love of her life. She lived for her moments under the glare of the stage-lights-gliding through the air, pretending however fleetingly to effortlessly defy gravity. Yet with a debilitating injury forcing her to reconsider her future, she also began to reconsider what she had taken for granted in her past. Beneath every perfect arabesque was a foot, disfigured by pointe shoes, stuffed-taped and bleeding-into a pink silk slipper. Behind her ballerina's body was a young girl starving herself into a fragile collection of limbs. Within her love of ballet was a hatred of herself for struggling to achieve the perfection it demanded of her. In this raw and redemptive debut memoir, Ellen O'Connell Whittet explores the silent suffering of the ballerina-and finds it emblematic of the violence that women quietly shoulder every day. For O'Connell Whittet, letting go of one meant confronting the other-only then was it possible to truly take flight. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Whittet, Ellen O'Connell.
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Ballet dancers -- United States -- Biography.
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Ballets.
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| Added Author |
Huber, Hillary, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781662003691 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1662003692 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13337622 |
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