By Barbara Quick The Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina became a writer at the age of 46, when — against all odds as someone who only learned English as an adult — she penned a richly detailed, wonderfully written memoir for the English-speaking world: Theatre Street, first published in London in 1931. I sought out the
By Barbara Quick What Disappears, my new novel set in the world of the Ballets Russes (Regal House), had a decades-long gestation. When I started it, the story was about my maternal great-grandmother and her family, Russian Jews in Kishinev in the time of the tsars. Dance had nothing to do with that first draft,