Arms Out Like Wings Glenda Taylor
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Arms Out Like Wings is an anecdotal memoir about my seven years spent in a ballet boarding school from 1969 to 1976 aged nine to seventeen. A ‘Pygmalion-esque’ story that takes me from my crowded, loving council house home of siblings, cockney, lorry driver Dad and Italian seamstress Mother, to a Rolls Royce gliding through London, tinkling piano music in corridors and marquees on the lawn. This book will give you an insight into a young ballet dancers life. The initial spark, training, literal blood sweat and tears, close friendships, pranks, pain, disappointment, injury, romance and sacrifices.
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Student Life & Madame Bonitto - Chapter 4 - Episodes 52 to 53
Staying on for a year as a student is full of incident. Then we have the arrival of vivacious Madame Bonitto who shakes up the school.
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The Red Barn - Chapter 4 - Episode 54
Going out till late. Not too old to get into trouble. Feeling let down.
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The Big Audition - Chapter 4 - Episode 55
Royal Ballet audition
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Tellyballyhoo - Chapter 4 - Episode 56
My last end of term show. rehearsals take over.
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Boys, Boys, Boys - Chapter 4 - Episode 57
Our school gets invaded by boys. no complaints, quite the distraction.
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London & The Solo - Chapter 4 - Episodes 58 to 59
I go to London for a photo shoot. A solo is choreographed on me.