Alice Robb, DON'T THINK, DEAR: On Love and Leaving Ballet
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews author Alice Robb about Don’t Think Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet, a profound and passionately-researched interrogation of the ballet world, inspired by the grueling years she spent at the most elite ballet school in the country. Alice describes what it was like to dedicate her childhood and adolescence to dance, her former and current challenges with body image, and her views on patriarchy in ballet culture. She also talks about how wonderful it was reconnecting with old classmates and including their stories in her memoir. Finally, she shares her best advice for aspiring authors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically |
| 0:56.5 | my favorite thing. Enjoy. Alice Robb is the author of Don't Think Dear on Loving and Leaving |
| 1:07.1 | Ballet. Alice has written for Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and the New |
| 1:11.9 | Republic, among other publications. Her first book, Why We Dream, was recommended by places like |
| 1:17.5 | The New Yorker, The New York Times, Today, Vogue, Time, and The Guardian, and has been translated into |
| 1:22.6 | 17 foreign languages. Welcome, Alice. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books. |
| 1:29.4 | Thank you much for having me. So excited to have you. Okay. Can you please tell listeners about your |
| 1:35.4 | beautiful memoir? Yeah. So my book is called Don't Think Dear on Loving and Leaving Ballet. And it is |
| 1:42.7 | in part a memoir about my time as a student at the |
| 1:45.7 | School of American Ballet. It's also about four of my classmates who I started with at |
| 1:51.4 | SAB when we were all nine years old and our lives all went in different directions. And it's |
| 1:56.1 | also a feminist interrogation of the ballet world and ballet culture. I love that you admit right |
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