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Delphine Léger left her famous soloist position at the Paris Opera Ballet thirteen years ago for a new life in St. Petersburg, bringing a secret with her that might upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Delphine has returned to her previous home, the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, at the age of 36 to choreograph the ballet that will launch the next chapter of her career—and, she hopes, finally make amends with her former pals. But Delphine quickly realizes that things have changed since she's been gone... and that certain secrets can't be kept hidden forever.

The Ballerinas delves into the complexities of female friendship, the dark drive towards physical perfection in the name of artistic expression, the double-edged sword of ambition and passion, and the sublimated rage that so many women harbor—all culminating in a twist you won't soon forget, starring a magnetic cast of characters you won't soon forget.

Book details: The Ballerinas Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Author : Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Language : English
ISBN : 1250274230
ISBN-13 : 9781250274236
Number of pages : 304 pages
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Date of Publication : December 7, 2021

About the authors: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Graduates in Wonderland (Penguin 2014), a memoir about the importance and intricacies of female friendships, was co-authored by Rachel Kapelke-Dale. Kapelke-Dale, who writes the "Advice from the Stars" column for Vanity Fair Hollywood, spent years in intensive ballet training before earning a BA from Brown University, an MA from the Université de Paris VII, and a PhD from University College London. She is now based in Paris.

Reviews: The Ballerinas Rachel Kapelke-Dale

The Ballerinas is a fully unmissable debut that is hypnotic, thrilling, and forceful. Its tremendous force stems not just from its beautiful writing and incisive social commentary, but also from how it depicts women's interactions with their bodies, ambitions, and collective wants. This story is filled with all the grace, elegance, and fierceness that dancers exhibit. Kapelke-Dale is a great talent, and this novel is imbued with all the grace, elegance, and fierceness that dancers embody. ––Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, bestselling author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here

The Ballerinas, by Rachel Kapelke-Dale, is an intriguing, intelligent, and page-turning tale about sacrifice in the cause of art. The Ballerinas' central characters weigh their love for their loved ones against their love for ballet, deciding how much of themselves and their bodies they are willing to give. To face ballet's attraction and severity, Kapelke-Dale confronts questions of aging, violence, and friendship. As a result, the tale is full of grace and strength. " ––Ellen O'Connell Whittet, author of What You Become in Flight

With all the grace and strength of a prima ballerina, Kapelke-debut Dale bursts forth from the wings. The Ballerinas is a stunner of a novel, with electric prose and careful observations on loyalty, ambition, power, and rage within the crucible of intense female friendships. Deftly constructed and crackling with tension, The Ballerinas is a stunner of a novel, with electric prose and careful observations on loyalty, ambition, power, and rage within the crucible of intense female friendships. I devoured this gripping drama, and I'll never look at professional dance in the same way again. " ––Andrea Bartz, author of We Were Never Here

Rachel Kapelke-Dale portrays ballet as a place where women "both reign and serve" at one point in The Ballerinas. You wouldn't be wrong to expect rivalry and sabotage here, but to reduce this novel to its rivalries is to do it a disservice. The Ballerinas is a keen investigation of a location and institution that simultaneously depends on and reduces women; Kapelke-Dale has constructed a crisp exploration of bodies, art, and agency that left me questioning what it means to be a spectator and what it means to be viewed. " ––Emily Layden, author of All Girls

Set in the harsh, violent world of professional dance, this dark and harrowing investigation of bodily autonomy, friendship, memory, and grief is set in the gritty, brutal world of competitive ballet. From the first line of this glistening debut, I was enthralled. " ––Ella Berman, author of The Comeback

The Ballerinas are "a spinning dream of a story addressing the sacrifices and sorrow of creation, the shrinking of women, and the pressure of always being on display," says the New York Times. ––Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty

Three friends traverse love, secrets, ambition, and the quest for artistic excellence within the hallowed walls of the world's most prominent ballet school and company, forever molded by their friendship and the most demanding artform in the world. From its provocative beginning pages to its searing conclusion and its perfectly timed final moments, The Ballerinas was engrossing, clever, and intelligent. ––Cathy Marie Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author of The Painted Girls and Daughter of Black Lake

As it hurtles toward the deadly finish predicted on the first pages, The Ballerinas masterfully uses the professional dancing context to explore the complexity of female friendships and the residual repercussions of ballet's patriarchal culture." ––Dance Magazine

How women torment their bodies to achieve their artistic goals makes for riveting literary drama. In The Ballerinas, a debut novel set in the hothouse environment of the Paris Opera Ballet academy as three students grow up, compete, form friendships, and go on a path of destruction, this terrain proves alluring. Kapelke-Dale has considered the big picture, examining how trauma and power imbalances derail so many dancers. ––The New York Times