Most importantly they discuss the "ever-present fear of failure" that afflicts all teenagers, but which is heightened in the ultra-competitive, talent-and appearance-based world of dance. All four works touch on eating disorders, homosexuality, and injuries. Or if you have read Toni Bentley's memoir Winter Season you will be familiar with the particular disdain dancers have for The Nutcracker and the horrible tasting fake snow they must dance with almost every night (Note that at times, Bunheads reads like an updated, fictionalized version of Bentley's young life in Balanchine's company of the early 1980s). If you have seen the movie Center Stage you will be familiar with the bad boy ballet dancer/choreographer who rides a motorcycle, like Kehoe's Remington. There are many more similarities between the two works - and to other fictional works about young people in ballet companies - suggesting some common themes and stereotypes in the ballet world. Leap By Jodi Lundgren Second Story Press 217 pp 11.95 Reviewed by Sienna Marks-Grant, age 12 This book was very descriptive and you could understand everything that was happening.
Both Bunheads and Audition emphasize the ways in which "every day is an audition" in the world of competitive ballet.
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