An edition of Alla Osipenko
(2015)
Alla Osipenko
beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet
by Joel Lobenthal
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"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"--
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Ballet dancers, Biography, Dancers, biography, Russia (federation), biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & BalletPeople
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Alla Osipenko: Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet
2015, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
in English
0190253711 9780190253714
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Table of Contents
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. Rapture
26. Roaming
27. Boris Eifman
28. Letting go
29. Maternal duty
30. Perestroika
31. America at last
32. Artistic credo
33. Home again
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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