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About Gavin Larsen

Author, teacher, retired dancer. Tea-drinking, Sunday NYT crossword devotee. Author of Being A Ballerina: The Power And Perfection Of A Dancing Life, and the forthcoming Infinite Steps: Thirty-Three Dancers and Their Lives in Ballet (UPF, March 2026)

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