- 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
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- Source:
- Alla Osipenko
- Author(s):
Joel Lobenthal
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
At nineteen, Osipenko was chosen to dance the leading role of the Lilac Fairy in a new production of The Sleeping Beauty staged by new Kirov artistic director Konstantin Sergeyev. The author compares Sergeyev’s Sleeping Beauty to the Kirov’s 1999 reconstruction of the Imperial production from choreographic notation made in 1903. Osipenko danced the dress rehearsal but later that night injured her leg getting off a bus, which kept her off the ballet stage for many months. By 1952 the Soviets had launched an aggressive program of cultural diplomacy, allowing exchanges between Soviet and foreign performers and companies. However, it was fraught with geopolitical tension, as witnessed by the cancellation of a star-studded gala of Russian ballet that was scheduled to appear at the Paris Opera Ballet in May 1954. It was canceled when French forces in Vietnam were vanquished.
Keywords: Osipenko, Sergeyev, Sleeping Beauty, Vietnam
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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