In 1981, after the wedding of the century, Anne Allan, a dancer, and ballet mistress with the London City Ballet, was offered an unusual assignment. Her Royal Highness Diana, the Princess of Wales, wanted dance lessons. Would Anne be her teacher? 

A Body of Work is written in an engaging style, and Hallberg’s personality comes across vividly on every page.

Ballet Novels for Spring 2024

Set in the glamorous, seductive world of ballet, Hamrick's erotically charged novel sees ballerina Sylvie embark on a passionate and...

Christmas means only one thing for Ballet Companies around the world and that is the marathon that is Nutcracker season. I've had my own...

Pas de Don't is Chloe Angyal's debut novel, her first book Turning Pointe examined the racial, gender and class inequities within ballet...

The Royal Ballet, World Ballet Day 2017 - photograph by Charlotte MacMillan Schlumping? Have you been Schlumping in Style in 2023. "But,...

Autobiography of Lynn Seymour CBE

Serenade by Toni Bentley ​ At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City...

This candid memoir opens a fascinating window on the emotive journey of a ballet mum, the mother of Yasmine Naghdi, Principal ballerina...

Dame Vivienne Westwood 1941 - 2022 Sadly, since I originally published this blog, Vivienne Westwood passed away on the 29th December...

The untold history of women's exercise culture, from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda. Author of The Cut's viral article shared...

Achille Perrot, tyrannical founder of New York's Perrot Ballet, controls his dancer's hearts as well as their bodies, but now his magic...

I started writing this last summer, but kept stalling, however having watched Matthew Bourne's 'The Red Shoes' and a documentary about...

With Season 4 of The Crown about to premiere on Netflix, it seemed the perfect time to reflect on Princess Diana's relationship with Ballet.

Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with Ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at...

Deborah Bull joined The Royal Ballet School at the age of eleven, graduating into the company in 1981; over the next twenty years she...

As dancers, we know why we love ballet—but for a new audience member, our beautiful, silent art form may seem like a mystery. Enter...

..for somebody that doesn't believe in Soulmates, it's just dawned on me that Ballet is mine....

The rags-to-riches story of one of the world’s greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of...