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02551aam a2200397 i 4500 001 FFDDB252323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 201211t20212021wvu b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2020051735 020 $a 1952271010 020 $a 9781952271014 035 $a (OCoLC)1191683321 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GV1785.N487 $b A3 2021 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Nicholson, Renee K., $e author. 245 10 $a Fierce and delicate : $b essays on dance and illness / $c Renee K. Nicholson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Morgantown : $b West Virginia University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 164 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a A girl who wanted to fly -- When I was a mouse -- Five positions -- Never famous -- Raked stages : a twelve-step program -- Coda : partnering -- Out of the blue -- A woman Ttthered to the Earth -- Hair : a short history -- In sickness -- A royal in Appalachia -- Certified : dancer becomes a teacher -- Claque -- Fierce and delicate -- Six impossible things before breakfast. 520 $a "In Fierce and Delicate, she looks back on the often confused and driven self she had been shaped into and finds beauty in the small roles she performed. When, inevitably, Nicholson moved on from dancing, severed from her first love by illness, she discovered that she retained the lyricism and narrative of ballet itself as she negotiated life with rheumatoid arthritis. An intentionally fractured memoir-in-essays, Fierce and Delicate navigates traditional geographies-South Florida, Northern Michigan, New York City, Milwaukee, West Virginia-and also geographies of the body. It is a book about the world of professional dance and also about living with chronic disease, about being shattered yet realizing the power to assemble oneself again, in a new way"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Nicholson, Renee K. 650 0 $a Ballet dancers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Rheumatoid arthritis $x Patients $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a Ballet dancers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00826041 650 7 $a Rheumatoid arthritis $x Patients. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01097034 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032232.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FFDDB252323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search