Dancer Interrupted: A Memoir

Show Guest: Susan Priver

“A must read for any creative person who’s felt they’ve lost their voice only to realize it’s been there all along.” -John Fleck

What happens when our dreams of becoming professional athletes, concert pianists, singers, writers—whatever we excelled at and loved in our youth —become impossible? For Susan Priver— author of the memoir, Dancer Interrupted—a girl obsessed with ballet, a gifted child ballerina, the center of attention without ever having to speak, it was, she believed, the end of her life. Dancer Interrupted is the story of an artist who loses her ability to practice her art and how she rediscovers herself without the veil of ballet. It’s a story of loss, self-recrimination, family drama, love affairs. It’s also the story of one woman’s vibrant, uplifting climb out of a world she believed to be the only world possible, and into a world far better than she had ever anticipated.