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Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet / Joel Lobenthal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lobenthal, Joel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Osipenko, Alla Evgenʹevna.
- Ballet dancers--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Ballet dancers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet state. A cast of characters drawn from all sectors of Soviet and post-Perestroika society makes this biography as encyclopedic and encompassing as a great Russian novel"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- PART ONE
- 1. A Storied Family
- 2. World at War
- 3. Coming of Age
- 4. Vaganova
- 5. First Love
- 6. Sidelined
- 7. Finding Herself
- 8. Seeing the West
- 9. Creation
- 10. Her Way
- 11. New Roles
- PART TWO
- 12. Nureyev Defects
- 13. Repercussions in London
- 14. Left Behind
- 15. Swept Off Her Feet
- 16. The Gates Close...
- 17... And Open Slightly
- 18. Staying in the Game
- 19. Her Fate
- 20. Cleopatra
- 21. Return to London
- PART FOUR
- 22. Resigning
- 23. Ruptured Achilles
- 24. Roaming
- 25. Boris Eifman
- 26. Letting Go
- 27. Maternal Duty
- 28. Perestroika
- 29. America at Last
- 30. Artistic Credo
- 31. Home Again
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-025372-X
- 0-19-025374-6
- 0-19-025371-1
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