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During the 60's & the "Cold War" there was a mystique about anyone who defected from Russia, everyone in the West wanted to know about life there so there was great interest when this book arrived, enhanced by the stunning photographs of Richard Avedon - someone else whose work I admired. I did not have to beg my local library in my then little schoolgirl voice to stock it and I was overjoyed for once, finding it displayed in the new books section (I can't remember the date I read this so ha
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I was totally in love with
Rudolph Nureyev
when I was in my teens - what a fine-looking man, what an amazing dancer, what a romantic story! I bought this book at the end of my first year in the workforce, have read it in its entirety probably only once, but have enjoyed browsing through it many times.
As I type this, I'm about to have one last look at this book. It was written in 1962, so he was still a young man and much happened after that. I shall keep my eyes out for a complete biography, and ...more
As I type this, I'm about to have one last look at this book. It was written in 1962, so he was still a young man and much happened after that. I shall keep my eyes out for a complete biography, and ...more
This book for me is not just an autobiography in a sense of telling the life events: when born, where went to school, etc. It is an autobiography, even a statement, of an artist. It is full of Nureyev thoughts on dancers, problems of teaching, learning, understanding dance. I could easily tear the whole book to citations! I hope this book helped me to understand the classical ballet a little bit more, and made me think on some creative issues of the dancer... I will certainly return to this book
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