‘Swan Dive <\/i>is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential<\/i> was to restaurants, a chance to go behind the serene front of house to the sweaty, foul-mouthed, psychofrenzy backstage.’ Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
In this love letter to the art of dance, Georgina Pazcoguin, New York City Ballet’s first Asian American female soloist, lays bare the backstage world of elite ballet.<\/p>\n
With an unapologetic sense of humour about the cut-throat mentality required, Pazcoguin takes us from her small home town in Pennsylvania to training for one of the most revered ballet companies in the world – a company that was rocked by scandal in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Pazcoguin continues to be one of the few dancers openly speaking up against harassment, abuse and racism – all of which she has painfully experienced firsthand.<\/p>\n
Tying together Pazcoguin’s fight for equality with an infectious passion for her craft, Swan Dive<\/i> is a page-turning, one-of-a-kind memoir that guarantees you’ll never view a ballerina or a ballet the same way again.<\/p>\n
‘Always arresting onstage, Georgina Pazcoguin gives us a take on the ballet world that is witty and from the heart. An eye-opening read.’ Mikhail Baryshnikov<\/b><\/p>\n
‘A funny, poignant and shocking read . . . [Pazcoguin] punctures, with enormous glee, the stereotype of the ballet dancer as an elegant, ethereal being.’ Fiona Sturges, Guardian<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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