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Nureyev : the life / Julie Kavanagh.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kavanagh, Julie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993.
- Nureyev, Rudolf.
- Ballet dancers--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Ballet dancers.
- Russia (Federation).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 782 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- Drawing on unpublished letters, interviews, and her own dance background, Kavanagh gives readers an intimate, revealing, and dramatic picture of one of the greatest and most iconic ballet dancers of the 20th century. 32 pages of b&w photographs.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 741-745) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780375405136
- 0375405135
- OCLC:
- 76416604
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