Background
Adrienne Sharp is the daughter of Norman Subotnik and Rona Subotnik.
Adrienne Sharp, dancer, educator, writer, author.
Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
Adrienne Sharp received a Master of Arts with honors from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University.
Charlottesville, VA, United States
Adrienne Sharp attended the University of Virginia.
Adrienne Sharp, dancer, educator, writer, author.
Adrienne Sharp, dancer, educator, writer, author.
Adrienne Sharp, dancer, educator, writer, author.
Adrienne Sharp, dancer, educator, writer, author.
Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
Adrienne Sharp received a Master of Arts with honors from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University.
Charlottesville, VA, United States
Adrienne Sharp attended the University of Virginia.
(The world's most famous choreographer becomes infatuated ...)
The world's most famous choreographer becomes infatuated with a coltish young dancer who proves both siren and muse. A rising star plunges into an affair with a principal but finds that ecstasy on the stage can't be surpassed in the bed. A dying legend reflects on the evanescent beauty of a life of gesture, lost to everything but memory. Each bittersweet story plants the reader amid a cast of dancers and choreographers who struggle - valiantly, playfully, fiercely - to find in the rigorous discipline and animating beauty of ballet a counterbalance to the chaos of unscripted life.
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2001
(Friends and lovers from an early age, ballet dancers Adam...)
Friends and lovers from an early age, ballet dancers Adam and Sandra find themselves ill-prepared for the demands of attaining their hopes of stardom, promised when an aging and ailing ballet master finds in Sandra a muse who may fulfill his dream of creating an opulent performance of Sleeping Beauty.
https://www.amazon.com/First-Love-Adrienne-Sharp/dp/1573223107/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=Adrienne+Sharp&qid=1596127080&sr=8-5
2005
(Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Ksch...)
Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered, every conquest she ever made.
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2010
(From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoir...)
From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl - the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl - growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.
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2018
Adrienne Sharp is the daughter of Norman Subotnik and Rona Subotnik.
Adrienne Sharp entered the world of ballet at the age of seven and trained at the prestigious Harkness Ballet in New York. She received a Master of Arts with honors from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University and was awarded a Henry Hoyns Fellowship at the University of Virginia.
A former member of the Harkness Ballet of New York, Adrienne Sharp drew upon her knowledge of the profession in her writing debut, the short story collection White Swan, Black Swan. The title refers to the plot of the ballet Swan Lake and is also the name of one of the twelve tales within it. The book reveals the off-stage existence of real and fictional ballet dancers; the stories show the often dark side of fife that contrasts with the excitement of performing.
Sharp's stories are dark, peopled by characters struggling with ruined love affairs, alcohol and drug problems, AIDS, and anorexia. Some of the fictional characters include the trio of dancers in White Swan, Black Swan: wife Lexa, husband Robbie, and his young dance partner and mistress, Sandra. Robbie uses Sandra and drugs to gratify his urge for the unattainable. Other fictional characters find themselves turning to or from ballet according to the influence of their relationships. Many stories also feature famous dance figures. Using information found in biographies and popular publications, Sharp created fictionalized accounts of episodes in their lives. Don Quixote, for example, has an aging George Balanchine describing his past obsession with eighteen-year-old dancer Suzanne Farrell. Furious at her refusal to leave her lover, he risked ruining his dance company by firing her. The widely publicized romance between stars Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev is expanded on in The Immortals: Margot + Rudolph 4 Ever.
Adrienne Sharp has been a fiction fellow at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference. Her professional life also includes a position as an associate professor of English at El Camino Community College.
(From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoir...)
2018(Friends and lovers from an early age, ballet dancers Adam...)
2005(Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Ksch...)
2010(The world's most famous choreographer becomes infatuated ...)
2001Adrienne Sharp is married and has two children.
