The most popular dance books of 2021

Books about dance move between the studio and the stage. Ballet companies, rival dancers, demanding teachers and bodies pushed to the limit provide the drama. Novels and memoirs here are about discipline and beauty, and about what people give up for a few perfect minutes. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.

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Between Beats
Cover of Between Beats

Between Beats

Christi Jay Wells

Published 2021

254 pages

Sportin' Life
Cover of Sportin' Life

Sportin' Life

Brian Harker

Published 2021

328 pages