“I can’t give away names because I don’t want people to be mad at me.” “I personally haven’t been but I have friends who have,” Hamrick says. OK, but do ballerinas really hang out in Parisian sex clubs? I love showing people that it’s not always what you see.” And then on stage, it’s just this beautiful, perfect bubble. People having snacks, people on their phones.
“But if you saw what’s in the wings you’d be shocked. “You see this image on stage,” says Hamrick, 36. Hamrick says she wanted to give readers a good time, but also a view of what the ballet is like “behind the gilded curtain” - a world that presents as pristine and perfect. “First Position” (get the pun?) is what they call a romance novel but might easily have been called “Fifty Shades of Ballet.” Hamrick, who spent 16 years at American Ballet Theatre before leaving to raise Deveraux, writes about a young dancer, Sylvie, who joins a prestigious national ballet company and tries to make her mark.Īs the dancers move vertically up the workplace ladder, there’s also a lot of, er, horizontal action. She suggested an alternative: “The Cat in the Hat.” “He opened it and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, give me that book!’” “I didn’t realize how well he was reading,” the former ballerina and first-time author says of her first-grader, whom she shares with partner Mick Jagger. Melanie Hamrick, who knows her way around a quick pirouette, had to move fast when her 6-year-old son Deveraux recently picked up a copy of her new novel, “First Position,” as she was signing books.
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