Chloe Angyal
@ChloeAngyal
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Author of TURNING POINTE, PAS DE DON'T, and POINTE OF PRIDE (2024). Wife to @ZachWahls. American Australian. It's pronounced "angel."
Coralville, Iowa
Joined June 2009
Today, the feminist ballet romance novel of my dreams is out in the world. It’s Centre Stage meets Under the Tuscan Sun (but in Sydney), plus First Wives Club. It’s sweet, it’s serious, it’s hot, it’s funny, and it’s… published.
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Please remember that most working ballet dancers are not in a top-tier unionized company, they are barely scraping by at a regional company while also teaching pilates, pouring coffee, and guesting during Nutcracker season. Organize your ballet companies!.
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(thanks to the approximately 87 people who sent me Claire's tweet).
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Many major ballet companies are already unionized, luckily (but we see you, Miami City Ballet!). That said most dancers at regional and lower-budget companies, and freelancers, are *desperately* in need of the protections providing by organizing.
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RT @R_Denhollander: The NYT asked me to reflect on what Bile's dominant return to competition means. "We owe it to young athletes to prote….
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RT @ChloeAngyal: Iowa City-area Romance Readers: put a hold on your calendar for the night of Sept. 19. It's the first meeting of Sidekick….
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Iowa City-area Romance Readers: put a hold on your calendar for the night of Sept. 19. It's the first meeting of Sidekick Coffee & Books' romance book club, hosted by me! We're reading RED, WHITE, AND ROYAL BLUE.
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"Homans notes that most dancers willingly submitted to their treatment: 'They did not complain, not then, not later.'" . Did she think it might be worth asking why not? And what might have happened to them if they did?.
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it's a sneak peek at something even sneakier today, fyi.
btw, if you want a sneak peek at Pointe of Pride, I post a snippet on IG every Wednesday, chloe.angyal.writes.
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OK, classical music nerds, help a romance author out: What's a piece of music that sounds like Spiegel im Spiegel but isn't Spiegel im Spiegel?.
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Obviously the major villain of Pas de Don't is the patriarchy (in Romance as it is in real life), but the secondary villain is a man who proposes marriage to a woman riiiight as she's accomplishing some major life goal independent of him. Launch those men into the sun.
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“If you show the work, if people know how hard you’re working to make this perfect, flawless, ethereal, highly feminine thing, you’ve failed.”.
“Little ballerinas are trained to smile, to be compliant, not to complain and to make what they are doing look easy.”. The Turning’s Room of Mirrors podcast | The Saturday Paper
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if you're going to cancel your evening plans so you can stay up all night reading a romance novel, now is the polite time to do it
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Based on the number of people who've told me Pas de Don't made them want to book a trip to Sydney, I think Tourism Australia owes me a cut.
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RT @ChloeAngyal: btw, if you want a sneak peek at Pointe of Pride, I post a snippet on IG every Wednesday, chloe.angyal.writes.
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btw, if you want a sneak peek at Pointe of Pride, I post a snippet on IG every Wednesday, chloe.angyal.writes.
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Romance Readers, I love you.
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wait til he finds out that "mozzarella sticks" is the nickname of a devastatingly handsome guy who agrees to pose as her boyfriend at this wedding, hijinks and true love (and deep fried cheese) ensue.
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MOZZARELLA STICKS AND ME, a romance novel waiting to happen.
There’s a couple breaking up so loudly on the sidewalk in front of my house! He said WHO ARE YOU GONNA TAKE TO YOUR SISTER’S WEDDING NEXT WEEKEND? She said MOZZARELLA STICKS! Which is a valid and devastating blow.
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