Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet /

'Alla Osipenko' is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking the 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lobenthal, Joel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
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  • 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.