Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
Author(s): Julie Kavanagh
Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage. Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in l961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; gave his rabid sexuality full reign; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique; gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and, staged Russia's unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. Julie Kavanagh's uncompromising and magnificent biography, ten years in the making, is a brilliant tribute to a superstar the world can never forget.
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Commended for Samuel Johnson Prize 2008. Shortlisted for Whitbread Book Awards: Biography Category 2007 and Theatre Book Prize 2007.
Julie Kavanagh trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet School, and is the author of Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton. She has worked as ballet critic of The Spectator; Arts Editor of Harpers & Queen; and London Editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She is married to the ex-Royal Ballet dancer, now dance film maker, Ross MacGibbon, and has two sons.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.622
- : 01 June 2008
- : 204mm X 129mm X 37mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 3 x 16 page insets b&w photos
- : Biography & autobiography: film, television, music, theatre; Ballet
- : 787
- : 792.8028092
- : English
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Julie Kavanagh