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Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

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'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph

Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage.

Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in ; sparked Rudimania across the globe; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique; gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and staged Russia's unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were simply astonishing.

'Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man' Mail on Sunday

'The definitive study of a man who, in his combination of aesthetic grace and psychological grime, can truly be called a sacred monster' Observer

'Undoubtedly the definitive biography' Sunday Telegraph

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Nureyev: The Life

December 18,
This is quite a long book and naturally some of it is taken up with balletic details which I see bore some readers. They may have bored me once. Still as an adolescent I had purely by an association a certain amount of passing contact with the remnants of a Russian troupe stranded and forgotten in the most distant extreme of the world in the train of Pavlova herself because of the last War. They struck me at an ignorant age as colourful fakes, marvellously and exaggeratedly exotic but by then incapable of actually doing anything except talking about it. Some years later I accompanied a friend to a performance of Giselle with Rudolf Nureyev not long after he’d burst into the West like a volcano and Margot Fonteyn the reigning grande dame of the Royal Ballet, not in Covent Garden but a suburban auditorium. It was an entertaining spectacle for a couple of hours, but jumping in the air and hopping about on one toe nothing much more than specialised gymnastics. Later again, with a Parisian friend, we found ourselves in the Palais Garnier seated next to Mr Nureyev himself, by then very well established. We pretended of course not to notice, as if anyone

NUREYEV &#; AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH PICTURES BY ALEXANDER BLAND

First book on Nureyev written by Alexander Bland from interviews with the dancer. Photographs of the dancer’s beginnings in the West. Includes Nureyev&#;s anecdotes concerning his childhood, his discovery of the world of dance at Ufa, his early beginnings in the theatre, his years spent studying at the Vaganova Institute in Leningrad, his initial successes at the Kirov, his arrival in Paris and his early life in the West.

A precious and historical document, and the only one by Nureyev himself. Includes photos of the dancer’s beginnings in the West.

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  • Languages: Russian
  • Publisher: Volchebnaya Fleita, Agraf Mosk

Nureyev: The Life

Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century, had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage.

In this superb biography, Julie Kavanagh deftly brings us through the professional and personal milestones of Nureyev's life and career: his education at the Kirov school in Leningrad; his controversial defection from the USSR in ; his long-time affair with the Danish dancer Erik Bruhn; his legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn at the Royal Ballet in London. We see his fiery collaborations with almost all the major living choreographers including Ashton, Balanchine, Robbins, Graham, and Taylor. And we see Nureyev as he reinvigorated the Paris Ballet Opera in the early s before his death from AIDS complications in Nureyev: The Life is the most intimate, revealing, and dramatic picture we have ever had of this dazzling, complex figure.

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