Nureyev : The Life (9780307807342)

by Kavanagh, Julie

  112. “chaste and flowing” and subsequent quotes: Croce, “How to Be Very, Very Popular,” Afterimages.

  113. “a stern severity … He has given us”: A Bl, Observer of the Dance.

  114. “Forging as a dancer”: Compilation cassette, courtesy of Landseer Films.

  115. “Sometimes, like in Swan Lake”: Ibid.

  116. “Margot was Home”: Daneman, Margot Fonteyn.

  117. “There was no condescension … She ate everything”: RN/EK.

  118. “Go next door and find out”: Quoted in DS.

  119. “kissed properly”: source withheld.

  120. “ninety percent”: Colette Clark.

  121. “to make copy out of”: Money, Fonteyn & Nureyev.

  122. “Heavens, Tito”: and subsequent quotes, Secret Lives, produced and directed by Madonna Benjamin, Channel Four Films, 1997.

  123. “somehow become very feminine”: Nadia Nerina, ibid.

  124. “Perhaps I should have married”: Blue.

  125. “She can activate me”: Constant Lambert to Anthony Powell, quoted in Daneman, Margot Fonteyn.

  126. “That’s all I need”: Quoted by Joan Thring.

  127. “listening to Mozart … I returned here”: Daily Mirror, December 12, 1963.

  128. “extremely physical”: Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, January 6, 2003.

  129. “A love affair without scars … consummated on the stage”: quoted in DS.

  130. “too absorbed … He remains”: Croce, “Separate Worlds,” Afterimages.

  131. “Everybody knew who he was … I told him”: EB.

  132. “Soviet ballet is the best”: RN/EK.

  133. “Madame, there is your first”: Omnibus on Dowell, “All the Superlatives” BBC Television, 1976.

  134. “How can there be conversation”: To Saal, Newsweek, April 19, 1965.

  135. “It was Dowell who went beyond”: Alastair Macaulay, Times Literary Supplement, May 9, 2003.

  136. “What happens to me”: Ashton, quoted in DD.

  137. “Fred got so rubbed up”: William Chappell.

  138. “never very comfortable”: Georgina Parkinson.

  139. “a very kinky modern”: Ballet Today, May/June 1964.

  140. “He did it by getting angry”: MF Auto.

  141. “She’d just walk up”: Noel Pelly.

  142. “heavenly place”: MF Auto.

  143. “Somehow, against the odds”: Keith Money.

  144. “We walked” and subsequent quotations from Money, Fonteyn & Nureyev.

  145. “looking anxious but”: Joan Thring.

  146. “her usual giggly self”: Ibid.

  147. “filleting out the trash”: Money, Fonteyn & Nureyev.

  148. “the star in an avowed”: A Bl, Observer of the Dance.

  149. “The whole enterprise now”: Money, Fonteyn & Nureyev.

  150. “It thudded into one”: Ibid.

  151. “He was fine”: Coward Diaries.

  152. “What he did—which”: Quoted in DD.

  153. “No performance, no pay”: MF Auto.

  154. “Such was the irradiance”: Trudy Goth, Ballet Today, October 1964.

  155. “one of the great moments”: Coward, Diaries.

  156. “a tiny smile”: Money, Fonteyn & Nureyev.

  11 • SACRED V. PROFANE, EAST V. WEST

  1. “tactics of obstruction”: and subsequent quotes from police report, Andrea Amort, Nurejew und Wien.

  2. “Already, I didn’t trust”: JP’s N.

  3. “A beautiful stone must have”: DD.

  4. “how to become truly … That’s why I took”: Sunday Times (London), December 27, 1964.

  5. “Things can be old-fashioned”: Ashton article on Petipa, July 31, 1967.

  6. “a questionable business”: Arlene Croce, New York Review of Books, August 12, 1999.

  7. “nothing for Siegfried to do”: Sunday Times (London), December 27, 1964.

  8. “So there were”: D&D, January 1972.

  9. “sits on his ass”: To Martin Bernheimer, Los Angeles Times, September 4, 1977.

  10. “too radical a departure”: Sunday Times (London), undated clipping.

  11. “a free hand … not only in the original”: Aurel Milloss letter to Egon Hilbert, October 30, 1964.

  12. “other unpleasant things”: NYT, October 15, 1964.

  13. “He lost … This was tragic”: To Cl B, NYT, April 18, 1965.

  14. “the banal optimism … broken sighs”: Vera Krasovskaya s.v. “Swan Lake,” International Dictionary of Dance.

  15. “they already have in them”: Horst Koegler, D&D, undated clipping.

  16. “a manic-depressive”: Cl B, unmarked clipping.

  17. “a spirit of love … both the pure love”: EB, Beyond Technique.

  18. “loyal and disloyal”: Time, April 16, 1965.

  19. “existential and artistic”: D&D, July 1966.

  20. “Suddenly he got excited”: RN to James E. Neufeld, Power to Rise.

  21. “a sort of Diaghilev”: D&D, July 1966.

  22. “alone without Nureyev”: Neufeld, Power to Rise.

  23. “The Ballet Called Siegfried”: DT, December 1964.

  24. “a belly flop position”: Dance Theatre Journal 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1991).

  25. “as a lawyer”: NYT, October 15, 1964.

  26. “Here in Central Europe”: Dance Magazine, December 1964.

  27. “Turgid Lake”: D&D, December 1964.

  28. “glean as much as he could”: Lynn Seymour.

  29. “a modern incarnation”: Vittoria Ottolenghi s.v. “Fracci,” International Encyclopedia of Dance.

  30. “the Magnani of dance actresses”: Croce, “The Royal Line,” Afterimages.

  31. “Feel! If the coat isn’t worthy”: Lynn Seymour with Paul Gardner, Lynn: The Autobiography of Lynn Seymour.

  32. “We’ve become very very”: Ibid.

  33. “She is fabulous”: unedited footage, Four Faces of Ballet, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1965, NC@ NYDL.

  34. “What you give to the public”: Ibid.

  35. “Every time you dance”: JP’s N.

  36. “developed a bad knee”: Betty Oliphant, Miss O: My Life in Dance.

  37. “We all knew”: Linda Maybarduk.

  38. “What about Rudik?”: Oliphant, Miss O.

  39. “something like learning Hamlet”: Dance Magazine, February 1965.

  40. “half broken foot”: Four Faces footage.

  41. “a profoundly exciting”: Neufeld, Power to Rise.

  42. “mysteriously walking … an emergency good turn”: Dance Magazine, February 1965.

  43. “I tell you how it was”: Four Faces footage.

  44. “miraculously recovered”: Betty Oliphant.

  45. “the still undisputed master”: Dance Magazine, February 1965.

  46. “There was established”: Ralph Hicklin, Toronto Globe & Daily Mail, January 6, 1965.

  47. “the same liquid quality”: Anthony Crickmay and Clement Crisp, Lynn Seymour.

  48. “as if she had drawn them”: Richard Austin, Lynn Seymour: An Authorised Biography.

  49. “Kenneth was determined”: and subsequent quotations Seymour, Lynn: The Autobiography.

  50. “Neither dancer fills a balletic”: undated clipping, Vogue (U.S. ed.).

  51. “succeeded by other … a decree”: Haltrecht, The Quiet Showman.

  52. but something that “melts”: Austin, Lynn Seymour.

  53. “almost revolting”: To Barbara Newman, Striking a Balance: Dancers Talk About Dancing.

  54. “instinctively made adjustments”: Seymour, Lynn: The Autobiography.

  55. “most refined”: Cl B, NYT, April 24, 1965.

  56. “double something or others”: Gable, quoted in DS.

  57. “nice, normal fellow”: Seymour, Lynn: The Autobiography.

  58. “so still you can almost hear”: Marilyn La Vine.

  59. “darling, terrible children”: undated cli
pping, Vogue (U.S. ed.).

  60. “company-wide”: Annette Page.

  61. “the symbols of the Royal”: Cl B, NYT, April 24, 1965.

  62. the “New Nijinsky”: Newsweek, April 19, 1965.

  63. “effects that mark”: Time, April 19, 1965.

  64. “Each person not only united”: Claudia Roth Pierpont, “After God,” The New Yorker, April 8, 2002.

  65. “archangel and satyr”: Cecil Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries, ed. Hugo Vickers.

  66. “dowdy little Welsh mouse”: Shelley Winters, Best of Times, Worst of Times.

  67. “a pert young girl … He can’t dance … where they could cuddle”: Dorothy Kilgallen, New York Journal-American, May 6, 1965.

  68. “a young kid … when the stars”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

  69. “dressed in black leather”: Mary Woronov, Swimming Underground.

  70. “looking beautiful … She staggered forward”: Warhol and Hackett, Popism.

  71. “the Sleeping Ballerina”: title of Dolin’s Spessivtseva book.

  72. “jumping night place”: Christopher Gibbs, Men in Vogue (U.K. edition), September 15, 1966.

  73. “Everything went through her”: Liuba Myasnikova.

  74. “What, better … Completely different”: Albert, Alexander Pushkin.

  75. “give something a little extra”: undated clipping, D&D.

  76. “He don’t like you come”: DD.

  77. “I’m sorry. We take from second”: Interview for Unz.

  78. “He so inspire me … Because I don’t want”: Valentina Pereyeslavec, DD.

  79. “He is my touchstone … try never to move in”: Hector Zaraspe, DD.

  80. “Everyone thought that”: Daneman, Margot Fonteyn.

  81. “volte-face from prospective”: Ibid.

  82. “the outsider, the neurotic male”: Cl B, NYT, June 27, 1966.

  83. “a tone poem of the subconscious”: Piers Pollitzer, DT, July 1966.

  84. “because he loves nobody”: Horst Koegler D&D, July 1966.

  85. “divided up the music”: JP’s N.

  86. “an indefinite visit”: Atlantic Monthly, March 1986.

  87. “quite a lot … There is so much there”: undated clipping, Show.

  88. “where the accents go”: DD.

  89. “A wonderful girl”: Rosella Hightower.

  90. “not once, not twice, but”: Nicholas Dromgoole, unmarked clipping.

  91. “friend, partner, and master”: Ballet News, July 1981.

  92. “most beautiful and magical”: Introduction, Carla Fracci: Vivere è Danzare … Danzare è Vivere.

  93. “When you know … It is my duty”: Quoted in Barbara Gail Rowes, unmarked clipping.

  94. “the Parsifal of ballet”: D&D, January 1972.

  95. “the peculiar Russian furs”: DT, November 1966.

  96. “great gardens, a great empire”: Ibid.

  97. “mere breathing pauses”: Gerhard Brunner, D&D, January 1967.

  98. “certainly more Nureyev”: DT, November 1966.

  99. “sad dynasty to which”: Brunner, D&D, January 1967.

  12 • WILD THING

  1. “her own inimitable fantasies”: Vogue (UK ed.), April 15, 1971.

  2. “would all but ruin”: Russell Miller, The House of Getty.

  3. “chic avant d’être … You want it?”: Bois.

  4. “the druggists”: Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties.

  5. “They couldn’t get off the floor”: John Hopkins, The Tangier Diaries.

  6. “the daring one”: Christopher Gibbs.

  7. “He prefered to ignore bad things”: Wallace Potts.

  8. “tripping regularly”: Alice Rawsthorn, Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography.

  9. “two of the prettiest houses”: Lee Radziwill.

  10. “like Nora in”: Quoted in Diana DuBois, In Her Sister’s Shadow.

  11. “The music, the painting”: Ibid.

  12. “faded Russian-y”: Vogue (U.S. ed.), July 1971.

  13. “80 percent Lila”: Lee Radziwill.

  14. “blaze of Turquerie”: Vogue (U.S. ed.), December 1966.

  15. “a fantasy girl”: DuBois, In Her Sister’s Shadow.

  16. “infinitely more beautiful”: Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties.

  17. “After all, she’s not just a socialite”: DuBois, In Her Sister’s Shadow.

  18. “in the way that you just do”: Joan Thring.

  19. “from their body language”: DuBois, In Her Sister’s Shadow.

  20. “That Boy”: Joan Thring.

  21. “Maybe … it’s that Margot has gained … silly, but stronger”: Time, April 16, 1965.

  22. “was everywhere … the shock”: Unz.

  23. “Yes, Babilée created it”: Denise Tual, Le Temps Devoré.

  24. “a sort of asexual fury”: Gérard Mannoni, Roland Petit: un choregraphe et ses peintres.

  25. “The third day a sportscar”: Tual, Le Temps.

  26. “That idea alone excited him”: Denise Tual.

  27. “Enter the young girl”: from scenario reprinted in Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris Saison 1992–93 tribute to Roland Petit.

  28. “the style of Petipa”: Le Mystère Babilée, directed by Patrick Bensard, 2001, Cinématheque de la Dance.

  29. “like a wild boy”: Cl B, ibid.

  30. “angel-thug”: Croce, “Back to the Forties,” Afterimages.

  31. “The eyes outlined in blue”: Tual, Le Temps.

  32. “we get the perfume of him”: Sally Ann Kriegsman, Ballet Review, Winter 1993.

  33. “Cocteau is no longer there”: Ballet Review, Summer 1994.

  34. “She used to say”: Le Mystère Babilée.

  35. “did everything”: Babilée, Ballet Review, Summer 1994.

  36. “The diamonds”: Mannoni, Roland Petit.

  37. “I would tell him how photogenic”: Quoted in DS.

  38. “the world of nightclubs”: Walter Terry, Saturday Review, May 27, 1967.

  39. “un Swann ‘Pop’ ”: Pierre Le-Tan, Carnet des anneés Pop.

  40. “Every paradise is found”: D&D, April 1967.

  41. “le même que celui”: Vogue (French ed.) February 1967.

  42. “le joli moujik”: Roland Petit, Temps liés avec Noureev.

  43. “the erogenous zone … The way girls model”: Jonathan Green, All Dressed Up.

  44. “body sculptures à deux”: unmarked clipping.

  45. “absolutely fantastic”: Marianne Faithfull, quoted in Philip Norman, The Stones.

  46. “two peculiarly gross”: Tom Wolfe, the kandy-kolorred tangerine-flake streamline baby.

  47. “It was like seeing himself”: Norman, The Stones.

  48. “a kind of dancing creature”: DD.

  49. “You must go back to Louis XIV”: Quoted in Norman, The Stones.

  50. “hugely admired—possibly even desired”: Christopher Gibbs.

  51. “He was always saying”: Faithfull, quoted in Norman, The Stones.

  52. “which totally burned”: RN/EK.

  53. “Buy me a taxi”: Blue.

  54. “Dazzled by Rudolf”: Keith Baxter.

  55. “Peter O’Toole and Nureyev”: To Paul Anstee, February 13, 1964, Gielgud’s Letters.

  56. “Picking up a smallish … Come on, munch … wanting to kiss us all”: Siân Phillips, Public Places: The Autobiography.

  57. “his real business”: DD.

  58. “When Russian student caps … natty ‘Nuri’ way”: to DS.

  59. “He too began to experiment”: Norman, The Stones.

  60. “the fearful ritual”: Unz.

  61. “You couldn’t get near”: Robert Gable.

  62. “the only one who could touch”: Bonnie Prandato.

  63. “He simply didn’t have”: Ibid.

  64. “the first fraying threads”: Croce, “The Other Royal Ballet,” Afterimages.

  65. “quite the uninhibited”: Winth
rop Sargeant, The New Yorker, May 27, 1967.

  66. “hypersophisticated, hyperdramatic”: Bob Colacello, Holy Terror.

  67. “to be a movie star … just couldn’t get … kind of aimless”: Monique Van Vooren.

  68. “Rudi had a hard time”: to DS.

  69. “his pale skin, his Slavic bones”: Van Vooren, Night Sanctuary.

  70. “scruffy and irksome … I can’t take my eyes”: Daneman, Margot Fonteyn.

  71. “or any of the usual … For heaven’s sake”: MF Auto.

  72. “but didn’t look too happy”: unmarked clipping.

  73. “the end of the trip”: undated clipping.

  74. “I felt they didn’t know how”: EB.

  75. “It’s like pouring water”: Oliphant, Miss O.

  76. “raging some days about fat”: Per-Arthur Segerström.

  77. “We discovered that he was not”: Anneli Alhanko.

  78. “had to be rough”: EB.

  79. “dear little furry mice”: A Bl, Observer of the Dance.

  80. “dramatically in the true line … more like a kid”: undated clipping.

  81. “she just fell into Rudolf’s lap”: source withheld.

  82. “which meant you had to go home”: Gösta Svalberg.

  83. “We had a tough time”: Gerd Andersson.

  84. “You have an excellent chance”: Swedish TV compilation tape, courtesy of Gunilla Jensen.

  85. “not great but very blond”: Marit Gentele Gruson.

  86. “depressingly unimaginative”: Ballet Today, March/April 1968.

  87. “He did some beautiful things”: Quoted in DD.

  88. “poultry going into a chicken coop”: Peter Williams, D&D, April 1968.

  89. “I have corps de ballet”: Quoted in DS.

  90. “Tatar physique”: Le-Tan, Carnet des années Pop.

  91. “I had to cut out all”: To Joan Juliet Buck, Vogue (U.K. ed.) December 1978.

  13 • TIME TO CRASH THE GATES

  Unless otherwise noted, all quotations in this chapter by Rudi van Dantzig and Toer van Schayk (as well as those attributed to RN) are drawn either from my interviews or from excerpts in English of van Dantzig’s memoir, Het spoor van een komeet (Remembering Nureyev: The Trail of a Comet) translated by Katie de Haan, who generously gave me access to her then unpublished text.

  1. “just about ideal”: A Bl, Observer, March 10, 1968.

  2. “the best Nutcracker”: Omnibus, BBC-TV, 1993. NC@NYDL.

  3. “worked on the principle”: JP’s N.