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Irina : ballet, life and love / Irina Baronova.
LIBRA GV1785.B3475 A3 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baronova, Irina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baronova, Irina.
- Ballet dancers--Biography.
- Ballet dancers.
- Ballet--History--20th century.
- Ballet.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 534 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2005.
- Summary:
- Choreographer George Balanchine discovered her. Yul Brynner romanced her. She danced for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Adolf Hitler, and Josef Goebbels. This memoir by the elegant octogenarian celebrates a remarkable life in the arts.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Our flight from Russia 1
- I Childhood, 1920-1931
- Memory 15
- Days with Didina 23
- Summer holidays 29
- School days 38
- First ballet lessons 42
- First performances 46
- Goodbye Bucharest, hello Paris 53
- The front of the class 63
- II The Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo, 1931-1936
- Three Baby Ballerinas 71
- A big break 81
- La Dame en Rose 87
- The stage bug 96
- 'Perfidious Albion' 101
- Freezing in Plymouth 111
- America 116
- Movie stars and forbidden fruit 123
- London life 133
- Holidays and plots 143
- Trouble in the family 148
- Meeting Nijinska 153
- A Hundred Kisses 159
- The show must go on 170
- III Marriage, 1936-1939
- On the run 189
- Heartbreak 198
- War looms in Spain 203
- Encounters in Nazi Germany 212
- Into hiding 226
- Adventures with Boris Kochno 241
- Working with Fokine 250
- Antics at the Opera House 259
- Sailing to Australia 272
- Melbourne 278
- A Sydney wedding 285
- New Zealand and the Pacific 292
- IV War and Change, 1939-1948
- War 305
- Florian 313
- Ballet wars 318
- Ballet Theatre 326
- Love 333
- Goodbye to Fokine 342
- Divorce 355
- Last furlough 362
- Papa's heart 367
- A different stage 379
- Endings 390
- Jerry and the boys 399
- Postwar Shocks 412
- Dark Eyes and Yul Brynner 419
- V A New Life, 1948-1967
- Freedom 437
- Engaged 447
- A divorce and a wedding 460
- Marriage, birth and death 465
- Family life 475
- Family dramas 479
- Old friends and a curse 487
- Ballet again 495
- Summer holidays 499
- Back in the USSR 506
- Tragedy 508.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0813030269 :
- OCLC:
- 70920348
- Publisher Number:
- 9780813030265
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