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Find Sarah’s essays, features and criticism for The Washington Post here.
Book Reviews
*Limitless Space, Endless Motion: on The Boy From Kyiv, in The New York Review of Books
*Ambition and Appetite: on Balanchine Finds His America, in The Wall Street Journal
*Women Making Waves: on Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water, in The Wall Street Journal
*Jennifer Grey’s memoir is a stinging indictment of how we judge beauty: on Out of the Corner, in The Washington Post
Arts Reviews
*In Hollywood’s golden age, no dancer rivaled Debbie Reynolds’s high-stepping joy, in The Washington Post
*Naked ambition: Sarah Small’s ‘Delirium Construction’ brims with life, in The Washington Post
*“Pepperland” is an ecstatic and provocative Beatles tribute, like no land you’ve been to before, in The Washington Post
*Lou Harrison and Mark Morris: a grand partnership of music and movement, in The Washington Post
Essays
*Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time, in The Washington Post
*On “Pose,” dancing isn’t just about self-expression. It’s a survival skill for trans women, in The Washington Post
*How to recover with grace: Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka at the U.S. Open, in The Washington Post
*In pain and rage, a protester approached police. And then he danced, in The Washington Post
*Muhammad Ali’s grace broke the mold of a heavyweight champion, in The Washington Post
Features
*Hitting the water without a splash gets big cheers, but has Olympic diving gotten too dry? in The Washington Post
*Lies, drugs, and all that jazz: Nicole Fosse opens up about her famous Broadway parents, in The Washington Post
*These star ballerinas are retiring — graceful, and grateful, to the last dance, in The Washington Post
*McCarthyism silenced this Black icon. Now dancers are making noise, in The Washington Post
*Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots, in The Washington Post
*What’s it like to dance “The Nutcracker”? It’s a marathon of pain, in The Washington Post
*Hermes bags, hugs and the occasional stalker: When ballet fans go overboard, in The Washington Post
*In ballet, conductors are the dancers’ guardian angels, in The Washington Post
Videos
*This is your brain on art
*Art in an instant: the science of improv
*Grace doesn’t come easy. Not even for Beyoncé.