- 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
Nureyev Defects
Nureyev Defects
- Chapter:
- 12 Nureyev Defects
- Source:
- Alla Osipenko
- Author(s):
Joel Lobenthal
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Osipenko was prominent when the Kirov Ballet made its debut in Paris in 1961, but her behavior made Soviet authorities skittish, particularly her affair with French ballet star Atillio Labis. Young Rudolph Nureyev’s behavior was also alarming. On the closing night of the Paris season Osipenko danced Swan Lake with him. The next day the company was leaving for its London debut when, on the airfield, Nureyev was told he was being sent back to the USSR; instead, he defected on the spot.
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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