I, Maya Plisetskaya
By: Maya Plisetskaya ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis ; foreword by Tim Scholl.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡ Mikhaĭlovna, -- 1926-; Ballerinas -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: I︠A︡, Maĭi︠a︡ Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡--
Description: "Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey, presenting a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during the troubled period from the late 1930s to the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The dacha and Sretenka Street; title: What I was like at five; title: Relatives; title: Spitzbergen; title: I study ballet; title: Back in school and father's arrest; title: My mother disappears; title: Chimkent; title: Concert for the Cheka; title: Tchaikovsky's ʾImpromptuʾ; title: The war; title: My first year at the Bolshoi Theater; title: The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage; title: Mastering the ABCs of the theater; title: ʾRaymondaʾ; title: ʾSwan Lakeʾ; title: Youth festivals; title: My injuries, my healers; title: Who'll get whom!; title: Stalin's birthday; title: I dance in ʾDon Quixoteʾ; title: I dance in Golovanov's opera; title: Life on the road and the end of the Stalinist era; title: My trip to India; title: Persecution; title: How I didn't go to London; title: While the company was in London; title: How I dressed; title: What a person needs; title: Shchedrin; title: Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect; title: I go to America; title: Seventy-three days; title: How we were paid; title: Paris meetings; title: Work with Yakobson; title: Why I did not stay in the West; title: Marc Chagall draws me; title: November 20; title: How ʾCarmen Suiteʾ was born; title: Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Bjart; title: A lyrical digression; title: My ballets; title: My ballets (continued); title: I want justice; title: Work in Italy; title: Work in Spain; title: Untitled; title: Years of wandering; title: Curfew.