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Swan Dive - The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
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Swan Dive - The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
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'Swan Dive is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen
Confidential was to restaurants, a chance to go behind the serene
front of house to the sweaty, foul-mouthed, psychofrenzy
backstage.' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times Award-winning New York City
Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives
readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet - the
gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don't see from the
orchestra circle. In this love letter to the art of dance and the
sport that has been her livelihood, NYCB's first Asian American
female soloist Georgina Pazcoguin lays bare her unfiltered story of
leaving small-town Pennsylvania for New York City and training amid
the unique demands of being a hybrid professional athlete/artist,
all before finishing high school. She pitches us into the
fascinating, whirling shoes of dancers in one of the most revered
ballet companies in the world with an unapologetic sense of humour
about the cutthroat, survival-of-the-fittest mentality at NYCB.
Some swan dives are literal: even in the ballet, there are plenty
of face-plants, backstage fights, late-night parties, and raucous
company bonding sessions. Rocked by scandal in the wake of the
#MeToo movement, NYCB sits at an inflection point, inching toward
progress in a strictly traditional culture, and Pazcoguin doesn't
shy away from ballet's dark side. She continues to be one of the
few dancers openly speaking up against the sexual harassment,
mental abuse, and racism that in the past went unrecognized or was
tacitly accepted as par for the course - all of which she has
painfully experienced firsthand. Tying together Pazcoguin's fight
for equality in the ballet with her infectious and deeply moving
passion for her craft, Swan Dive is a page-turning, one-of-a-kind
account that guarantees you'll never view a ballerina or a ballet
the same way again.
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