Alla Osipenko : beauty and resistance in Soviet ballet / Joel Lobenthal.

"Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet state. A cast of characters drawn from all sectors of Soviet and post-Perestroika society makes this biography as encyclopedic and encompassing as a gr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lobenthal, Joel (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Osipenko, Alla. Ballet dancers > Russia (Federation) > Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts. PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet. HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Osipenko, Alla Evgenʹevna. Ballet dancers. Russia (Federation) Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies.
Physical Description:	x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

A Storied Family
2. World at War
3. Coming of Age
4. Vaganova
5. First Love
6. Sidelined
7. Finding Herself
8. Seeing the West
9. Creation
10. Her Way
11. New Roles
12. Nureyev Defects
13. Repercussions in London
14. Left Behind
15. Swept Off Her Feet
16. The Gates Close...
17... And Open Slightly
18. Staying in the Game
19. Her Fate
20. Cleopatra
21. Return to London
22. Resigning
23. Ruptured Achilles
24. Roaming
25. Boris Eifman
26. Letting Go
27. Maternal Duty
28. Perestroika
29. America at Last
30. Artistic Credo
31. Home Again
Index.