Swan Dive, by Georgina Pazcoguin e-book review

Pazcoguin attests to each suspicion you might harbor about ballet’s underbelly. The creator has skilled all of them, together with career-defining accidents, consuming issues, disastrous co-worker romances and racial bias. Pazcoguin (“Paz”) grew up in Altoona, Pa., the daughter of a Filipino father and Italian mom. She writes that as a biracial dancer who would change into the NYCB’s first Asian American feminine soloist, she was habitually typecast as caricatures: the villain, the maid or the nurse, say, in “Romeo and Juliet.”