Marie Dô’s Fais danser la poussière (2006) is now out there in a brand new, 2022 version by Caraibéditions.
Description: “’Brown—it’s not the colour of actual princesses! In my books, the princesses are white with lengthy blond hair.’ Camille, my great-uncle, rolls his eyes: ‘Boudiou, and the Queen of Sheba, then? She was brown such as you! A queen, that’s one thing greater than a princess, isn’t it?’”
Maya, born in Paris, introduced up within the Nineteen Seventies, is a distinct little lady who finds her mixed-race actuality troublesome. Her mom is white, and her father is black. Her ardour for dance saves her. Maya makes her dream come true: to be employed by a world-famous African American choreographer.
Marie Dô was the primary French dancer to be employed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater firm in New York on the age of 19. She additionally danced in Canada, in Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, and in lots of French firms. Obsessed with poetry and literature since childhood, Marie Dô discovered a brand new élan in writing. In 2006, she printed her first novel, Fais danser la poussière (Plon), based mostly on her personal story.It was tailored right into a TV movie for France 2 in 2010; Dô co-wrote the script and created all of the choreography, which reached almost six million spectators, received the Jury Prize and the Viewers Prize on the Luchon Audio-Visible Competition, the CNC prize for audiovisual fiction, and the – “Photographs de la diversité” prize at Competition of La Rochelle.
Her different novels embrace, Qu’importe la lune quand on a les étoiles (Plon, 2007), Dancing Rose (Éditions Anne Carrière, 2013), and Les Dunes sauvages (Plon, 2016).
For extra info, see https://www.caraibeditions.fr/romans/614-fais-danser-la-poussiere.html