Biography and rudolf nureyev
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The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev by Linda
Maybarduk; Tundra Books: Toronto, ; $
When I was nine years old, I was in a musical at the local university in my town, the University of Michigan. My friends in the cast and I would stand in the wings and watch the dancers onstage, awed by the gracefulness and majesty they created. We would try to imitate the dances backstage, trying to get every lift and every spin just right. The dances were incredibly difficult for people of our age and size, but somehow we managed to do all of them. There was one lift I did where I would actually fly through the air like a bird. Once I was so overcome I fell on the ground laughing with delight.
I've read many books about dance, but this is the only one I have ever read that captures the passion of dance. I expected another book listing dates of famous dances and who played what role. Instead I received an emotional book which reflected my own feelings for dancing, and which made me want to throw down the book and dance.
The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev by Linda Maybarduk is a biography of Rudolf Nureyev, who changed dancing forever. Linda Maybarduk was Rudolf's personal friend, so she told a lot about her own experiences with him, which made the book much mo
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Nureyev, photographed by Richard Avedon in Paris, in , the year that the Kirov star defected from the Soviet Union.© THE RICHARD AVEDON FOUNDATION
If ever there was an artist who invited the retributive sort of biography that is in fashion these days, it is Rudolf Nureyev. Nureyev, as a friend of his put it, did things that are “absolutely out of our habits.” He dropped ballerinas on the floor, threw dinner plates at people, and blew his nose on hotel towels. He repaid his greatest benefactor by going to bed with the man’s wife. But Julie Kavanagh, in her “Nureyev: The Life” (Pantheon; $), doesn’t go for the bait. Nureyev may have behaved badly, she says, but he was bigger than that.
Nureyev was born in , and, like most Soviet citizens who didn’t starve to death in the years that followed, he almost did. He grew up in Ufa, a small town in the republic of Bashkiria. The family was Tatar, and poor—the father was a security guard in a factory. But Ufa had an opera house, and, one New Year’s Eve, Nureyev’s mother bought a single ticket to the ballet and sneaked her whole family in, including the seven-year-old Rudolf. He later said that it was that night, as he watched “The Song of the Cranes,” a sort of Bashkirian “Swan Lake,” that he received the call. In dance biographies