When Linda Hamilton, a psychologist and wellness consultant for the New York City Ballet who performed with the company from 1969 to 1988, started writing an advice column in Dance Magazine 15 years ago, questions revolved around losing 10 or 15 pounds by any means necessary. The field has shifted from a climate of denial about anorexia, bulimia and substance abuse to one valuing holistic health practices. Kirkland’s book was grand testimony to an era of excess or simply a snapshot of one brilliant but troubled artist’s world, drug abuse has by all accounts become increasingly rare in American dance. ![]() ![]() NEARLY two decades have passed since the ballerina Gelsey Kirkland blew the stage door open with her drug-laced memoir, “Dancing on My Grave.” Her tale was a warning for an art form veiled in myth and lacking regard for the physical demands on performers, who sometimes sacrificed their health for artistic excellence.
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