Rudolf Nureyev
Author: Kavanagh, Julie
ISBN: 9780241986905
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 800
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 40mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes
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 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; 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. He and his life were simply astonishing.
ISBN: 9780241986905
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 800
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 40mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes
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 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; 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. He and his life were simply astonishing.
