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Although North Cascades and the surrounding forests provide a massive expanse of territory to reintroduce bears.

perhaps thats easier for many writers since discipline is required and we love having complete control.But ballet will likely always be tied up in our culture with ideas about femininity—both potentially confining ones.

These mysterious and private rituals of young women—these dark fairy tales—are at the heart of Abbotts work.Can you talk about the language? It feels like a subversive choice to avoid being lyrical or adoring about the female body.I remember our teacher assuring us the light would hit the netting inside and it would look very dramatic! But I was also just old enough to sense a slightly queasy feeling among a few parents.

Or do you mean the one has turned into the other in the way that everything gets watered down? Last years evasive.noting that how a dancer prepared her pointe shoes was a ritual as mysterious and private as how she might pleasure herself.

It can be dangerous—as in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—but I suppose it can save someones life.

Abbott has also always struck me as akin to an anthropologist; she not only explores the hidden subcultures of teenage girls but reveals the coded language and shared ethos of their cliques and sects.And I was struck by how listeners frequently laid the harshest judgment on the women for believing him.

which is a really brilliant way to get at the menace and greed thats so prevalent in our real estate–obsessed culture.ABBOTTIve always thought that was one of the most compelling things about teaching—how you can see versions of yourself.

INTERVIEWERWhat do you think when you look at it now?ABBOTTWhen I found that picture a few years ago.INTERVIEWERAnd that rivalry and love is complicated by the fact that theyre teaching young girls—theyre mirroring their mother.