Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness

by Renée K. Nicholson

Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.

Ren e Nicholson's professional training in ballet had both moments of magnificence and moments of torment, from fittings of elaborate platter tutus to strange language barriers and unrealistic expectations of the body. In Fierce and Delicate, she looks back on the often confused and driven self...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952271010
• ISBN13: 9781952271014
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"