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“Well enough to dance” becomes the new barometer by which I measure my pain.
Muscle Memory is a quietly seething braided memoir in three acts: part personal account of a lifelong relationship with ballet; part pain narrative; part researched examination of classical ballets. Dancyger exposes the systematic dismissal of women’s suffering, tests the linkages between chronic pain and trauma, and looks for answers in The Firebird—a folktale-turned-ballet about the bargains we make to free ourselves.
PRAISE FOR MUSCLE MEMORY
“Musical, memorable, magical, lyrical.”
—Chloé Caldwell, author of Women and Trying
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lilly Dancyger is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship, a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, and Negative Space, winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. Her work has been published by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Guernica, Literary Hub, and more, and she writes the newsletter The Word Cave. Dancyger lives in New York City and teaches at the Randolph College low-residency MFA program.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: April 20, 2027
Print Length: 110 pages
Dimensions: 5×8 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-53-0
“Well enough to dance” becomes the new barometer by which I measure my pain.
Muscle Memory is a quietly seething braided memoir in three acts: part personal account of a lifelong relationship with ballet; part pain narrative; part researched examination of classical ballets. Dancyger exposes the systematic dismissal of women’s suffering, tests the linkages between chronic pain and trauma, and looks for answers in The Firebird—a folktale-turned-ballet about the bargains we make to free ourselves.
PRAISE FOR MUSCLE MEMORY
“Musical, memorable, magical, lyrical.”
—Chloé Caldwell, author of Women and Trying
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lilly Dancyger is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship, a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, and Negative Space, winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. Her work has been published by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Guernica, Literary Hub, and more, and she writes the newsletter The Word Cave. Dancyger lives in New York City and teaches at the Randolph College low-residency MFA program.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: April 20, 2027
Print Length: 110 pages
Dimensions: 5×8 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-53-0