- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- Alla Osipenko
- Author(s):
Joel Lobenthal
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The Introduction introduces Alla Osipenko, reviews her career, her attributes as a dancer in the Kirov Ballet, her position in the vanguard of modern Soviet choreography, her participation in the Soviet cultural exchanges of the Krushchev era, and her outspoken opposition to Soviet authority. The Introduction also discusses author Joel Lobenthal’s relationship with Osipenko, his initial meeting with her to profile her for the quarterly Ballet Review, and his many interviews with her during the years she taught in Hartford in the 1990s.
Keywords: Osipenko, Krushchev, Kirov Ballet, cultural exchange, Ballet Review, Lobenthal
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index