Can I Actually Sing? Meet New York City Ballet s Songbird nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Published: 18 Jul 2021 12:19 PM BdST
Updated: 18 Jul 2021 12:19 PM BdST Georgina Pazcoguin at the David H Koch Theater, home to New York City Ballet. Pazcoguin joined the company in 2003. Heather Sten for The New York Times
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“The brave thing,” Georgina Pazcoguin said in an interview, “is going to be walking into the rehearsal studio Aug 3.”
Like many ballet dancers these days (or so it seems), Pazcoguin has written a memoir. Hers is not timid. In “Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina,” this New York City Ballet soloist writes candidly about Peter Martins, the company’s former leader she refers to him as her psychological abuser as well as staff members and dancers, including Amar Ramasar, one of the male principals who lost his job after a photo-sharing scandal in 2018 and was later reinstated.
Georgina Pazcoguin Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture in Swan Dive nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ballet Is Hard Enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year?
An elite male principal. A veteran ballerina. A rising apprentice. Three dancers talk about life and work during the pandemic.
From left, James Whiteside, a principal at American Ballet Theater; Savannah Durham, an apprentice at New York City Ballet; and Ashley Bouder, a City Ballet principal.Credit.Zach Gross for The New York Times
March 10, 2021
In ballet when you lose a year, you lose a lot. It takes years of sacrifice and training to become a professional, and the performing life of a dancer is short.
For elite ballet dancers, a solid career lasts around 15 years and that comes after roughly a decade of schooling. Could this pause alter the evolution of dance generations?