\n\tBetween being a Pacific Northwest Ballet principal, a doula and a mom, you’d think Sarah Ricard Orza wouldn’t have spare time to pick up a book. “It’s always something I’m saying I need to make more time for!” she says. “Growing up, we didn’t have a television, so reading was big in our house. Nowadays, I keep whatever book I’m reading in my purse, so when I have a few minutes to spare I can read!” Orza shared what book she’s currently devouring, as well as a childhood fave that now lives on her daughter’s bookshelf.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\t \n\t\tI don’t really have a “go-to.” I read because it allows you to engage in such a different way than television or films. You get to visualize so much of the story on your own terms. A good book stays with me, becomes part of me. There are so many great literary characters that inspire me. It is the characters in the books I read that often haunt me.<\/strong>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t I have read The Great Gatsby<\/a> <\/em>more than any other book—probably five or six times. I just love its clarity of prose.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\tI was gifted the book A Very Young Dancer<\/a><\/em> when I was probably 6 or 7. It follows a young School of American Ballet student who is picked to play the role of Marie in New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker.<\/em> I devoured that book. Analyzed each and every picture—from the teenage dancer standing en pointe while talking on a pay phone at Lincoln Center to Patricia McBride’s hair and makeup. I would mimic how the dancers held their hands. Everything was so incredibly beautiful and magical to me. I just knew I wanted to go to SAB. <\/strong>Incredibly, I got to. What a dream it was to have that childhood vision come true. My current director, Peter Boal, is even in the book! It is now on my daughter Lola’s bookshelf.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t Sarah Ricard Orza ✨ on Instagram: “Lola’s lovely and wonderful kindergarten teacher summed it up in her report card— “Lola is artistic, creative, positive, and loving. It is…”<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The post The Well-Read Dancer: PNB Principal Sarah Ricard Orza's Faves<\/a> appeared first on Dance Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Between being a Pacific Northwest Ballet principal, a doula and a mom, you’d think Sarah Ricard Orza wouldn’t have spare time to pick up a book. “It’s always something I’m saying I need to make more time for!” she says…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t\tThe Husband’s Secret<\/a><\/em> by Liane Moriarty, the author behind the HBO series “Big Little Lies.” It’s on loan to me from PNB principal Leta Biasucci<\/a>. It’s just the right combination of good, solid writing and scandalous content!\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\nWhat is your go-to read for inspiration?<\/h3>\n
What book have you reread the most?<\/h3>\n
What book has influenced you most as a dancer?<\/h3>\n
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