“If the lights were on in the audience, listening to this music I would just be flayed open...”

Children’s author and television producer Megan Reid talks about how a performance of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain sparked her lifelong obsession with ballet.

Watching the ballet’s second half, a stark dance duet set to Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel, Reid found that great dance — like great writing — created a world she wanted to live in forever.

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Megan Reid is a children’s book author and the director of literary scouting and development at FX Networks.

Did you like the track Megan chose? Listen to the music in full:

Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Pärt