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  title info:
    title: If you say so
  name:
    name part: Herman, Michelle
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Essays.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: scu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 247 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: If You Say So is a deeply personal collection of true stories by Michelle Herman, who began ballet at 62 and found it life-changing. Blending themes of grief, reinvention, joy, and connection, Herman reflects on dance as both healing practice and artistic expression. Through moments like creating a socially distanced dance film during the pandemic and mourning the loss of a close friend, she explores the emotional and physical ways we carry love and loss. This memoir is a heartfelt tribute to family, friendship, art, and the unexpected beauty of late-in-life transformation.
  abstract: "Michelle Herman took her first-ever ballet class at the age of 62, and it changed her life. If You Say So is a book of true stories about loss and reinvention, longing and loneliness, friendship and community, and family and home-and dance, the dedicated practice of which has led her on an unexpected new path. This is a book about grief and the way it lives in the body-and joy, and the way it lives in the body too. From the making of a pandemic-era dance film-the dancers masked, outdoors, six feet apart-to the sudden, shocking loss of a friend and fellow (sister) dancer three years later; from the challenges and delights of making art to the challenges and delights of motherhood and daughterhood, this book is a love letter to Herman's life as she enters her seventh decade, and to everyone and everything, human and nonhuman both, who's filled her life with their love." (from the publisher)
  note: Michelle Herman
  subject:
    topic: Ballet
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Loss (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Authors, American
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Ballet
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Perte (Psychologie)
  subject:
    topic: Écrivains américains
    temporal: 20e siècle
    genre: Biographies
  classification: PS3608.E763 I396 2025
  identifier: 9780913123508
  identifier: 0913123501
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250319
    record change date: 20260530145628.2
    record identifier: in00005783353
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng