Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet /

Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet /

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Author / Creator:Lobenthal, Joel, author.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Osipenko, Alla Evgenʹevna.
Osipenko, Alla Evgenʹevna.
Ballet dancers -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography.
Ballet dancers.
Russia (Federation)
Biography.
Biographies.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10395042
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ISBN:9780190253707
0190253703
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index.
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"--
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1.
  • 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 2.
  • 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 3.
  • 22. Resigning
  • 23. A New Beginning
  • 24. Baryshnikov
  • 25. Rupture
  • 26. Roaming
  • 27. Boris Eifman
  • 28. Letting Go
  • 29. Maternal Duty
  • 30. Perestroika
  • 31. America at Last
  • 32. Artistic Credo
  • 33. Home Again
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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