Words From Gavin
Gavin LarsenNotes, news, thoughts and reflections on dance and life.
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Dance Is A Superpower
The other night, I turned from bustling Walnut Street onto a narrow alley in downtown Asheville, looking for a gallery space that even Google Maps couldn’t find. It was a short little lane lined with the backs of commercial buildings, dumps...
Dance Through The Lens
When I was dancing, I (almost) always liked doing photo shoots. They felt like a performance, but the kind where you could stop and redo things if you weren’t happy with how they went the first time. During a photo shoot, my yearning, wishi...
Life's Not A Dress Rehearsal...
When I was a kid, I had a “Life is not a dress rehearsal” coffee mug (not that I drank coffee, then or now.) It was sort of a catchy phrase popular in the ‘80s, not too different from the YOLO we hear more these days, an inspirational/motiv...
"Marie"
One of the most common questions I’ve gotten about Infinite Steps is '“How did you and Gene decide which dancers to have in the book?”
I can understand why someone would wonder. From the hundreds of dancers Gene (my collaborator, the photo...
Irina and Maxim
Maxim Beloserkovsky and Irina Dvorovenko were two of the first dancers I interviewed for Infinite Steps. I remember the day we spoke very well— it was a cold, gray day in February of 2023, and we’d arranged to talk by phone late on a Sunday...
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Author, teacher, retired dancer. Tea-drinking, Sunday NYT crossword devotee. Author of Being A Ballerina: The Power And Perfection Of A Dancing Life, and the forthcoming Infinite Steps: Thirty-Three Dancers and Their Lives in Ballet (UPF, March 2026)
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