Description
| Product ID: | 9781529033564 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Swan Dive |
| Subtitle: | The Making of a Rogue Ballerina |
| Authors: | Author: Georgina Pazcoguin |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Ballet, Ballet, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, True stories: general, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs, True stories, New York, c 2010 to c 2020 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Throwing open the doors of the closed world of ballet, Swan Dive does for dancers what Kitchen Confidential did for professional chefs. <p><b><i>'Swan Dive </i>is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain’s <i>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, <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Tying together Pazcoguin’s fight for equality with an infectious passion for her craft, <i>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.<br><br><b>'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><br><br><b>'A funny, poignant and shocking read . . . [Pazcoguin] punctures, with enormous glee, the stereotype of the ballet dancer as an elegant, ethereal being.' – Fiona Sturges, <i>Guardian</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-09 |