- 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
Letting Go
Letting Go
- Chapter:
- (p.199) 28 Letting Go
- Source:
- Alla Osipenko
- Author(s):
Joel Lobenthal
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Realizing that she was now in her mid-forties and her future on stage questionable, Osipenko attempted to emigrate with her family, but the attempt was foiled.A meaningful partnership with Maris Liepa, a great star of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, who was a guest with Eifman, punctuated the end of her career as a ballerina.
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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