In a memoir Lance Olsen calls "fascinating, horrifying, unfalteringly honest," the author draws from her experiences as a modern dancer in New York City during the nineties. Trained at the prestigious Martha Graham Center, she intertwines accounts of her own and other dancers' lives with essays on modern dance history. Her luminous prose spotlights this passionate, often brutal world. Scarred, strained, and tough, bearing witness to the discipline...

A través de tres generaciones y un siglo completo, La Nieta de la Maharaní relata la historia de cuatro mujeres admirables: Anita Delgado, una bailaora malagueña que con 17 años contrae matrimonio con el marajá de Kapurthala, en la India; Laila, una mujer libanesa independiente y adelantada a su tiempo; Zahra, su hija, que cometió el error de enamorarse de Ajit, el hijo de Anita Delgado y el marajá; y por último Maha, fruto de la relación...

In her youth, Russian dancer Luba fell for a bad man: a handsome but dangerous rare amber dealer who would disappear for months on end but expect Luba to drop everything when he called. Despite everything, Luba could not deny her attraction to the seductive Chey, but their passionate, turbulent relationship came to an end when Luba discovered a shocking secret about her lover and fled from Russia. From elite private clubs in New Orleans to the London...

"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he...

This reimagining of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" traces the story of a family of flappers who work in a 1920s speakeasy until their suspicious father decides to marry them off, prompting a confrontation with a bootlegger from the eldest sister's past.

Offers first-hand insight into Bombay's sex industry and traces the author's experiences with a charismatic teenage exotic dancer whose independence was challenged by an ambitious politician's campaign of false morality.

The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe Forrestier, a lovestruck young jurist who's determined to...

Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the Follies, Don declines to dance for the Ziegfeld's. Don falls...