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Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet
- Title
- Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet / Joel Lobenthal.
- Author
- Lobenthal, Joel
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- x, 261 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index.
- 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. Ruptured Achilles -- 24. Roaming -- 25. Boris Eifman -- 26. Letting Go -- 27. Maternal Duty -- 28. Perestroika -- 29. America at Last -- 30. Artistic Credo -- 31. Home Again -- Index.
- Call Number
- *MGYB (Osipenko) 15-6802
- ISBN
- 9780190253707
- 0190253703
- LCCN
- 2015008481
- OCLC
- 907446121
- Author
- Lobenthal, Joel, author.
- Title
- Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet / Joel Lobenthal.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *MGYB (Osipenko) 15-6802