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Rivera's memoir, written with Patrick Pacheco (American Theater Wing, an Oral History) begins in 1957. That's when the young unknown dancer landed the role of Anita in a new work that would change musical theater forever: West Side Story. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero to a Scottish Irish mother and a Puerto Rican father in Washington, DC, in 1933, Rivera was enrolled in a ballet class by her...Log In or Sign Up to Read More