Download or read book Nureyev written by Julie Kavanagh and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1961; 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 1980s before his death from AIDS complications in 1993. Nureyev: The Life is the most intimate, revealing, and dramatic picture we have ever had of this dazzling, complex figure.
Download or read book Memories of Rudolf Nureyev written by Nancy Sifton and published by Arnica Press. This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Sifton's eye witness account of the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev's 30-year career provides a "must read" for performing arts and biography buffs. An inside look at the incredible life of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev from an eye-witness account by dance enthusiast and writer Nancy Sifton. Having attended more than 1,000 Nureyev performances in her many travels over a 30-year period, the author documented her personal observations of Nureyev, both in rehearsal, onstage and off and his unique relationship with his many supporters who attended rehearsals, celebrated his birthdays, and provided assistance to accommodate his nonstop performing schedule. With humor and respect, her book educates, illuminates, and explains the many facets of this great dancer and the inspiring world of dance.
Download or read book Rudolf Nureyev written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rudolf Nureyev written by Jennifer Fandel and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Rudolf Nureyev, the danseur who changed forever the male dancer's role in ballet.
Download or read book Nureyev in Paris written by Jurgen Vollmer and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Year with Rudolf Nureyev written by Simon Robinson and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time, is an intimate and fascinating portrait of Rudolf Nureyev off-stage-a man who was an exacting, unpredictable, parsimonious and often immature individual, yet who, at the same time, aroused great affection in a host of friends. Simon Robinson frankly recalls his eventful year working for Nureyev. He did everything for this hopelessly impractical dancer except be his lover, much to Nureyev's disappointment. It was the Russian's insatiable sexual appetite that eventually destroyed him. Nureyev had six houses on three continents but no staff in any of them and he couldn't cook, drive, write a letter, tie a necktie or even change a light bulb. In 1990 Simon Robinson, until then professional crew on a racing yacht, became his PA. For the next twelve months they traveled from the Caribbean to America to Europe, living in luxury in Nureyev's New York and Paris apartments and in spartan isolation on his tiny Mediterranean island. Nureyev's explosive nature was exhausting to live with and many times during their year together Robinson nearly quit-and Nureyev nearly sacked him. It didn't happen, however, because Nureyev needed his PA's calm reliability to ballast his own rocky life, and because Robinson knew that genius must make its own rules.
Download or read book Nureyev His Life written by Diane Solway and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the legendary Russian dancer's climb out of poverty in the war-torn Soviet Union to become one of the century's most popular and influential artists. In order to separate reality from myth, the author draws on Soviet archives, family documents, diaries, correspondence, and about 200 interviews with his friends, peers, family, partners and professional colleagues. She takes us inside the great companies and shows how Nureyev changed the face of ballet and transformed the role of the male dancer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Paris Made Me written by John Kirby Abraham and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the shadow of Windsor Castle in Great Britain, the author left England for the Mediterranean in search of the sun. Adventures in several capitals allowed him to meet other expatriates who crossed deserts and mountains to observe conflicts, culture and decolonisation. His artwork, photography and theatrical presence left their mark in several cities, ending up as a radio-television journalist and presenter for French State media. As an English expatriate, Paris Made Me offers an objective view of European evolution as seen from France, souvenirs of helping Lawrence Durrell on Cyprus when the island was becoming a Republic, performing in a Roman temple in Lebanon and meeting Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, capturing the city of Beirut in photographs and filming in Copenhagen, before Paris beckoned him to become a journalist for Paris Radio France Internationale and Radio Australia, meeting such celebrities such as Orson Wells, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Peter Ustinov and Jacques Brel.
Download or read book Dancer written by Colum McCann and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning author’s biographical novel of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev: “Exuberant and exhilarating . . . a brilliant leap of imagination” (San Francisco Chronicle). In Dancer, Colum McCann tells the ballet icon’s story through the myriad voices of those who knew him. There is Anna Vasileva, Rudi’s first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon of New York in the ‘80s, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, nurses and translators, Margot Fonteyn, Eric Bruhn, and John Lennon. And at the heart of the spectacle stands the artist himself, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection.
Download or read book The Ballet Lover written by Barbara L. Baer and published by Open Books Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ballet Lover exposes the beauty and cruelty of ballet, the performances, the back stage moments, and the personal dramas of the famous ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Natalia Makarova as seen through the eyes of an American female journalist. Paris, 1970s: the orchestra plays the first ominous note of Swan Lake. In the audience sits Geneva, an American journalist and ballet lover, waiting for the heart-stopping beauty and seduction of the romantic duet to start, but instead she witnesses Rudolf Nureyev failing to catch his Russian partner Natalia Makarova, allowing her to fall with a crash upon the stage. Geneva interprets the fall as an act of cruelty, a man with all the fame and power in the world brutally letting fall his delicate, wraith-like artistic partner. When other critics defend Nureyev and accuse Makarova of causing her own tumble, Geneva vows revenge on the page, creating havoc in her own career and discovering surprising parallels between herself and the fallen ballerina. The Ballet Lover is a refined, mesmerizing, fictional account of two of the most celebrated dancers in the dance world, how one compromised the other, and how the drama on the stage often mirrors those played out in real life.
Download or read book Rudolf Nureyev written by Julie Kavanagh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW '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 1961; 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
Download or read book The Flower Festival in Genzano written by August Bournonville and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1987 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bournonville's "pas de deux" from "The Flower Festival in Genzano," an important example of the Romantic Ballet heritage, is brought to life through the use of Labanotation. This means of analysing works of dance preserves the choreography of its original form. Handed down over the years from person to person, the "pas de deux" has not always been danced in the true Bournonville tradition; now it can be danced in its original form and style. The publication of The Flower Festival in Genzano: Pas de Deux marks a first in making actual choreography available to students. Detailed information is provided in the Study and Performance Notes which are of great value to both students and dance researchers.
Download or read book Rudolf Nureyev A Ballet Maestro s Life and Influence written by William James Miller and published by Daniel O Brien. This book was released on 2024-10-25 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolf Nureyev: A Ballet Maestro's Life and Influence is more than a biography; it's an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of the most iconic figures in ballet history. This compelling narrative delves deep into Nureyev's extraordinary journey, from his humble beginnings in Siberia to his meteoric rise to global stardom. Explore the extraordinary talent that propelled him to defy Soviet constraints and defect to the West, sparking a cultural earthquake. Witness the revolutionary partnership with Margot Fonteyn, a union that redefined ballet and captivated audiences worldwide. Beyond the dazzling performances, this book uncovers the complexities of Nureyev's personality – a man driven by passion, ambition, and a relentless pursuit of artistic excellence. Unravel the intricate tapestry of his personal relationships, the relentless demands of his international career, and the profound impact of his life on the world stage. This richly illustrated and meticulously researched book is a definitive account of Nureyev's life, delving into his artistry, his impact on the Cold War era, and his enduring legacy. Experience the exhilarating world of ballet through the eyes of a true legend, and understand how his influence continues to shape the dance world today.
Download or read book Rudolf Nureyev written by Patricia Boccadoro and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an unorthodox first meeting in London in 1964, Patricia Boccadoro got to know Rudolf Nureyev on a personal basis after she moved to live in Paris in the 1970s. In this amusing, informative book, she recounts how exciting it was to see him dance in those heady London years, during his legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn, before giving a lucid account of his directorship of the Paris Opera Ballet, transforming them into one of the finest companies in the world. The book culminates with his legacy, demonstrating how, with his extreme intelligence, glamour and passion, he changed the image of the male dancer, making them the equal of the ballerina. Above all, the lively reminiscences of those closest to him bring Rudolf to life, casting off the image of a temperamental superstar, and painting a true picture of the immensely kind, fun-loving man behind one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Real Nureyev written by Carolyn Soutar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A backstage memoir takes an intimate look at the complicated life, endless search for perfection, and outrageous experiences of one of ballet's greatest icons and heroes.
Download or read book Ballet 101 written by Robert Greskovic and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a look at the world of dance; an analysis of ballet movement, music, and history; a close-up look at popular ballets; and a host of performance tips.
Download or read book Perpetual Motion written by Otis Stuart and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first full-scale biography of Rudolf Nureyev since his death from AIDS in 1993, Stuart tells Nureyev's story with wit and grace (Chicago Sun-Times). No dancer in history has been so splendidly characterized in the written word.--Francis Mason, Ballet Review. of photos.
