- 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
… And Open Slightly
… And Open Slightly
- Chapter:
- (p.126) 17 … And Open Slightly
- Source:
- Alla Osipenko
- Author(s):
Joel Lobenthal
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
For the first time since 1961, Osipenko visited the West with the Kirov when it toured Italy in the summer of 1966. Together with colleagues Makarova and Kurgapkina she ventured out freely around Venice, but was not allowed to continue on with the company when it began a London season later that summer. While she was in Italy, Nureyev asked her to defect to the West and dance with him, but that was impossible for her as she would not leave her son in Leningrad.
Keywords: Osipenko, Nureyev, Makarova, Kurgapkina, defect
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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