Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

by JulieKavanagh (Author)

Synopsis

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 l961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; gave his rabid sexuality full reign; 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. Julie Kavanagh's uncompromising and magnificent biography, ten years in the making, is a brilliant tribute to a superstar the world can never forget.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 848
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 03 Jul 2008

ISBN 10: 0141029692
ISBN 13: 9780141029696

Media Reviews
Magnificent...comprehensive and compulsively readable -- Simon Callow * The Guardian *
The definitive biography, a gripping account of an extraordinary life -- Lynn Barber * Telegraph *
She writes with flair and abundance * The Sunday Times *
Undoubtedly the definitive biography. Rudolf Nureyev, superstar, emerges in all his terribly flawed glory * Sunday Telegraph *
The definitive biography, a gripping account of an extraordinary life -- Lynn Barber * Telegraph *
Author Bio
Julie Kavanagh trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet School, and is the author of Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton. She has worked as ballet critic of The Spectator; Arts Editor of Harpers & Queen; and London Editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She is married to the ex-Royal Ballet dancer, now dance film maker, Ross MacGibbon, and has two sons.