"No More Red Shoes: The Art of Ballet and Motherhood"

Lucy Gray's photographs tell the stories of three prima ballerinas and their families. Since the late 1980's when the dancers' union put a leave-of-absence clause in their base contract, ballerinas have been able to work while pregnant and return to work after giving birth. This change is extraordinary in that it allows dancers to defy the myth that the dance director must dominate and influence every aspect of a ballerina's life in order that her work triumph.