Alice Robb’s recent book ‘Don’t Think Dear’

[Geoff]

As maybe not everyone reads the posts in Doing Dance, might I draw attention to what I have just written about this new book:

 

 

[alison]

Strange: I'd seen so much about the book on the forum that I didn't realise there wasn't actually a thread about it.

[Geoff]

I was prompted to post by the (to me astonishingly vicious) reactions on the US forum Ballet Alert:

 

https://balletalert.invisionzone.com/topic/47366-dont-think-dear-—-former-sab-students-memoir/

 

The comments followed an article in the New York Times in advance of publication. However I see that once the book came out, no one on Ballet Alert has thought to write about it. So it seemed like a good idea to do so here.