Melanie Hamrick (born July 17, 1987) is an American choreographer, author, producer, and former ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre, from which she retired in 2019 after fifteen years. ^{[1] [2]} In 2014, she began a relationship with Mick Jagger, ^[3] with whom she has one child, born in 2016. ^{[4] [5]} Hamrick was born in Williamsburg, Virginia and attended the Kirov Academy of Ballet. ^[6]

Hamrick choreographed a 2019 ballet named Porte Rogue, which was soundtracked to songs by the Rolling Stones and composed in collaboration with Jagger. ^[7]

In 2023, her debut novel, First Position, was published by Penguin Random House. ^{[8] [9] [10]} The romance novel, though not autobiographical in nature, is "loosely based on some truths backstage" during Hamrick's time as a ballerina. ^[11] The novel's title is a pun based on the first position in ballet. ^[12] In writing First Position, Hamrick took inspiration from her life experience as a ballerina, the novel Fifty Shades of Grey, and the 2010 psychological horror film Black Swan. ^[12] She announced in March 2024 that her second novel, The Unraveling, would be released that August. ^{[13] [14]}

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