Alla Osipenko
Subtitle: beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet
By: Joel Lobenthal
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780190253707
Subjects: Ballet dancers; Biography
Description: "Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet state. A cast of characters drawn from all sectors of Soviet and post-Perestroika society makes this biography as encyclopedic and encompassing as a great Russian novel"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Storied Family; title: 2. World at War; title: 3. Coming of Age; title: 4. Vaganova; title: 5. First Love; title: 6. Sidelined; title: 7. Finding Herself; title: 8. Seeing the West; title: 9. Creation; title: 10. Her Way; title: 11. New Roles; title: 12. Nureyev Defects; title: 13. Repercussions in London; title: 14. Left Behind; title: 15. Swept Off Her Feet; title: 16. The Gates Close ...; title: 17 ... And Open Slightly; title: 18. Staying in the Game; title: 19. Her Fate; title: 20. Cleopatra; title: 21. Return to London; title: 22. Resigning; title: 23. A new beginning; title: 24. Baryshnikov; title: 25. Rapture; title: 26. Roaming; title: 27. Boris Eifman; title: 28. Letting go; title: 29. Maternal duty; title: 30. Perestroika; title: 31. America at last; title: 32. Artistic credo; title: 33. Home again; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.