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I, Maya Plisetskaya / Maya Plisetskaya ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis ; foreword by Tim Scholl.
LIBRA GV1785.P55 A3 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015.
- Standardized Title:
- I͡A, Maĭi͡a Pliset͡skai͡a ... English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015.
- Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡.
- Pliset͡skai͡a, Maĭi͡a, 1925-2015.
- Ballerinas--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Ballerinas.
- Soviet Union.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 386 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Russian.
- Summary:
- Plisetskaya rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, she reflects on her personal and professional odyssey, presenting a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during the troubled period from the late 1930s to the 1990s. 74 illustrations.
- Contents:
- The dacha and Sretenka Street
- What I was like at five
- Relatives
- Spitzbergen
- I study ballet
- Back in school and father's arrest
- My mother disappears
- Chimkent
- Concert for the Cheka
- Tchaikovsky's Impromptu
- The war
- My first year at the Bolshoi Theater
- The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage
- Mastering the ABCs of the theater
- Raymonda
- Swan Lake
- Youth festivals
- My injuries, my healers
- Who'll get whom!
- Stalin's birthday
- I dance in Don Quixote, I dance in Golovanov's opera
- Life on the road and the end of the Stalinist era
- My trip to India
- Persecution
- How I didn't go to London
- While the company was in London
- How I dressed
- What a person needs
- Shchedrin
- Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect
- I go to America
- Seventy-three days
- How we were paid
- Paris meetings
- Work with Yakobson
- Why I did not stay in the West
- Marc Chagall draws me
- November 20
- How Carmen Suite was born
- Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart
- A lyrical digression
- My ballets
- My ballets (continued)
- I want justice
- Work in Italy
- Work in Spain
- Untitled
- Years of wandering
- Curfew.
- ISBN:
- 0300088574
- OCLC:
- 46882618
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