Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

Julie Kavanagh

Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 March 2019
Pages
800
ISBN
9780241986905

Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

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 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.

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