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Arms Out Like Wings episodes
- Bras, Boobs & Periods - Chapter 2 - Episode 30
Not so patiently waiting for breasts to appear. Bra-tastic. Periods at last.
6 min - Contemporary Dance, Top of the Pops & Cinzano - Chapter 2 - Episodes 31 to 33
Cool Girls do contemporary. Watching Top of the Pops in the library. Drunk in class.
11 min - Teachers - Chapter 2 - Episode 34
An eclectic array of teachers covering subjects from English language to stage make-up.
14 min - The Language of Ballet, Music in the Corridors & Flu Epidemic - Chapter 2 - Episodes 35 to 38
Becoming fluent in the language of ballet. Learning Benesh notation. Music in the corridors. Flu epidemic gets us all sent home.
9 min - Top Floor - Chapter 3 - Episode 39
Feeling really grown up and rearing little bird. Heart throbs on the wall. No room to swing a cat. Bottom shaping games!
5 min - Break a Leg, The Ward & Day by Day - Chapter 3 - Episodes 40 to 42
Knocked over by a car and breaking a leg causing a pause in career & training. What seems like endless time in hospital. Family sacrifices.
14 min - Physiotherapy, Day of Reckoning & the Dreaded Calliper - Chapter 3 - Episodes 43-45
Physiotherapy proves to be a lovely distraction in the guise of two Swedish physiotherapists. Time in hospital coming to an end and the dreaded calliper.
11 min - Learning to walk again - Chapter 3 - Episode 46
Discovering that learning to walk again is very difficult after three months in bed.
9 min - Home at last & Back to School - Chapter 3 - Episode 47 to 48
Home after three months in hospital and not feeling as happy as I thought I would. Back to school at last to resume ballet life.
8 min - Ballyhoo & Anorexia - Chapter 3 - Episodes 49 to 50
Best new dorm ever. Being treated like adults. visits by local boys via windows. Anorexia too close for comfort.
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About Arms Out Like Wings
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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.