
The interview has been edited for length, clarity and flow.ĪP: You danced with one of the country’s top companies for 16 years. Hamrick sat down with The Associated Press to chat about the process of writing her first novel. “I can’t give away names because i don’t want people to be mad at me.” “I personally haven’t been but I have friends who have,” Hamrick says.

OK, but do ballerinas really hang out in Parisian sex clubs? I love showing people that it’s not always what you see.” And then on stage, it’s just this beautiful, perfect bubble. People having snacks, people on their phones. “But if you saw what’s in the wings you’d be shocked.

“You see this image on stage,” says Hamrick, 36. Hamrick says she wanted to give readers a good time, but also a view of what the ballet is like “behind the gilded curtain” - a world that presents as pristine and perfect. As the dancers move vertically up the workplace ladder, there’s also a lot of, er, horizontal action.
