Dances

<b>A ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother&#160;in this &#147;striking debut&#148; (<i>Oprah Daily</i>).</b><br><br>At twenty-two years old Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she&#146;s promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She&#146;s instantly catapulted into celebrity heralded for her &#147;inspirational&#148; role as the first Black ballerina in the famed company&#146;s history. Even as she celebrates the achievement of a lifelong dream Cece remains haunted by the feeling that she doesn&#146;t belong. As she waits for some feeling of rightness that doesn&#146;t arrive she begins to unravel the loose threads of her past&#151;an absent father a pragmatic mother who dismisses Cece&#146;s ambitions and a missing older brother who stoked her childhood love of ballet but disappeared to deal with his own demons.<br><br>Soon after her promotion Cece is faced with a choice that has the potential to derail her career and shatter the life she&#146;s cultivated for herself sending her on a pilgrimage to both find her brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the grinding machinery of the traditional ballet world.<br><br>Written with spellbinding beauty and ballet&#146;s precise structure <i>Dances</i> centers around women art and power and how we come to define freedom for ourselves.