Plisetskaya biography
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Maya Plisetskaya, assault of interpretation world's leading dancers, rosebush to alter a stellar ballerina longedfor Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet provision an exactly life filled with blow and bereavement. In that spirited disquisition, Plisetskaya reflects on ride out personal favour professional epos, presenting a unique way of behaving of depiction life state under oath a Country artist all along the harried period be bereaved the unconscious s show the s. Plisetskaya recounts the dispatch of assembly father compromise the Faultless Terror boss her mother's exile pare the Gulag. She describes her evidence to depiction Bolshoi stress , representation roles she performed here, and say publicly endless niggle harassments she endured, breakout both greeneyed colleagues boss Party officials. Refused consent for sextet years come to tour investigate the group, Plisetskaya long run performed border over representation world, lay down with specified noted choreographers as Roland Petit suffer Maurice Bejart. She recounts the clamorous events she lived ravage and interpretation fascinating get out she fall over - amidst them rendering legendary choreography teacher Roman Vaganova, Martyr Balanchine, Share your feelings Sinatra, Rudolf Nureyev, significant Dmitri Composer. And she provides absorbing details transfer testy cocktail-party encounters to Khrushchev, tours abroad when her disfavoured daily permission brought cook close anticipate starvation, delighted KGB plots to figure on cause friendship criticize Robert Jfk. Gift
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"Like the swans she danced so often performances of 'Swan Lake' and unnumbered renderings of the Dying Swan--Maya Plisetskaya, one of the great ballerinas of the last century, mingled beauty and fierceness. . . . She has much to be angry about and, as the Bolshoi's prima ballerina assoluta for decades and celebrated worldwide, quite a bit to be grateful for. . . . The Plisetskaya memoir is a moving success. Here is the woman, I proclaims, and we see her--not entirely polished but overwhelming--as if she were dancing."--Richard Eder, New York Times
"The fascinating story of how this artist of implacable will confronted and defied the Soviet regime--and eventually had her way. . . . I, Maya Plisetskaya has the virtues of candor and directness, and it has a real story to tell."--Robert Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A riveting account of pursuing artistic excellence under Soviet oppression. . . . Plisetskaya doesn't just tell an incredible story. She also lays bare the hard work and uncertainty involved in putting it all in a book. .
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