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Nureyev: The Life Paperback – Illustrated, 11 November 2008

by Julie Kavanagh (Author)

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Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century, had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage.

In this superb biography, Julie Kavanagh deftly brings us through the professional and personal milestones of Nureyev's life and career: his education at the Kirov school in Leningrad; his controversial defection from the USSR in 1961; his long-time affair with the Danish dancer Erik Bruhn; his legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn at the Royal Ballet in London. We see his fiery collaborations with almost all the major living choreographers including Ashton, Balanchine, Robbins, Graham, and Taylor. And we see Nureyev as he reinvigorated the Paris Ballet Opera in the early 1980s before his death from AIDS complications in 1993. Nureyev: The Life is the most intimate, revealing, and dramatic picture we have ever had of this dazzling, complex figure.

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Paperback : 782 pages
ISBN-10 : 0375704728
ISBN-13 : 978-0375704727
Product Dimensions : 15.49 x 4.29 x 23.37 cm
Publisher : Vintage; Illustrated Edition (11 November 2008)
Language: : English

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"Julie Kavanagh distills the fabulous spirit of Nureyev, the ballet world's first pop icon."
--Vanity Fair

"Ferociously concrete, ambitious, profligate, shocking and soaring. . . . Nureyev is easily the best biography of the year."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The definitive biography of ballet's greatest star whose ego was as supersized as his talent."
--Tina Brown

"A treasure trove for those intrigued by Nureyev the dancer, filled with thoughtful reflections on his technique, details of his roles, and of his encounters with ballet greats."
--Seattle Times

"Kavanagh chronicles [Nureyev] with even-mindedness and original research and a mastery of detail. . . . And that is what we get: not a tell-all, but a tell-everything."
--The New York Observer

About the Author

Julie Kavanagh is the author of Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton, which won the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize. She trained in ballet before taking up a career in journalism and has been arts editor of Harpers & Queen, a dance critic for The Spectator, and London editor of both Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.

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alan deegan

Great gift

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2019

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Canadian reader

A great disappointment

Reviewed in Canada on 17 June 2020

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Way too much of the book (almost half) covervs Nureyev's life in Russia, pre-defection. Very boring. The rest - way too much information for my taste. I'm not a prude, but really!

moutarde

un "pavé" à déguster sans modération !

Reviewed in France on 19 March 2013

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cette bio étant la bio "officielle", je craignais le style hagiographie ; il n'en est rien ; on sent chez l'auteur de ce livre un profond respect pour les danseurs en général et c'est la passion de la danse qui anime ses pages ;

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Stephanie Boloux

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Reviewed in France on 17 May 2014

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Parfaitement écrit et illustré de rares photos , pour qui s'intéresse à ce formidable danseur.....ce livre est un veritable régal!

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Fantastic!

Reviewed in the United States on 11 April 2019

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This is a very in-depth biography. I was sad to see it end. I loved every page of this book. I had the extreme pleasure of see Rudolph in 2 ballets when I was a teenager. It was magical! His stage presence is something I can't put into words. And the very rare pictures at the end of the book are marvelous. Can't thank this author enough for doing such a good job.

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