Lucie André

Lucie André (Col ’89 CM) published her debut novel, Never Ready, which tells the story of protagonist Henri Drake’s experiences with love and loss in the New York City dance scene in the 1990s, which is likened to “working at a circus during a plague.” Described as “mythic and modern,” it has been featured in readings at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina, the Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York and Spalding Nix Fine Art gallery in Atlanta. The novel was inspired by André’s time working at a leading modern dance company in NYC when it lost two of its nine men to AIDS.