Nureyev
The Life
New York : Pantheon Books, [2007]
Format: Ebook
Related Information: http://myrcpl.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=DBEA19C7-9F3B-460C-BF01-8E102B093528
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 1 online resource (viii, 782 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
A comprehensive biography of twentieth-century Russian ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, that chronicles his childhood, defection to the West in 1961, and success on the stage.
Contents:
A vagabond soul -- Hollywood story -- Xenia and menia -- Blood brothers -- Six steps exactly -- Making luck -- Jazz, London -- A celestial accident -- The beatnik and the prince -- The horse whisperer -- Sacred v. profane, East v. West -- Wild thing -- Time to crash the gates -- Camera front, camera side -- New boy in town -- This thing of darkness -- Pygmalion diaghilev -- Dancing with the devil -- A circular circle. Complete -- A fatality to live.
ISBN:
9780307807342
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 741-745) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 741-745) and index.
Description based on print version record.