Swan Dive - The Making of a Rogue Ballerina

<p><b><i>'Swan Dive </i>is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain&rsquo;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.' &ndash; Daisy Goodwin, <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>In this love letter to the art of dance, Georgina Pazcoguin, New York City Ballet&rsquo;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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; all of which she has painfully experienc