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“You see this image on stage,” says Hamrick, 36. “But if you saw what’s in the wings you’d be shocked. There’s shouting. There’s moving sets. People having snacks, people on their phones. And then on stage, it’s just this beautiful, perfect bubble. I love showing people that it’s not always what you see.”“I personally haven’t been but I have friends who have,” Hamrick says. “I can’t give away names because i don’t want people to be mad at me.
Hamrick sat down with the Associated Press to chat about the process of writing her first novel. The interview has been edited for length, clarity and flow.I was fulfilled in the roles I was dancing. once I had a child, the balance didn’t work. At the time, only one other dancer had a child in the company. I felt that it was hard, and they didn’t really understand my need to balance being a mother and being in the studio 10 hours a day.It was the pandemic, and we had all that time.
AP: One serious angle you introduce is about the young women being mistreated by powerful men in charge.I think it happens in every career, everywhere. I find people can relate to that. And ballet has always been such a male-dominated world — yet it’s a female-dominated workplace. But I love that it’s changing. There are now way more female directors than there used to be.
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