105. “to create Russian ballet”: RN/EK.
106. “where they book him”: Gorlinsky to RN, November 25, 1974.
107. “the happiest of reconciliations”: A Bl, Observer of the Dance.
108. “making even senior critics”: Alastair Macaulay, Times Literary Supplement, May 9, 2003.
109. “We had all right vibrations”: Washington Star, April 3, 1977.
110. “like two conspirators … I felt like a mother”: Louis, Inside Dance.
16 • THIS THING OF DARKNESS
1. “Culture of the Night … supposedly a prim”: Anthony Haden-Guest, The Last Party.
2. “Isn’t it too bad that Proust”: Clarke, Capote.
3. “best things”: Ibid.
4. “I don’t know if I was in heaven”: Haden-Guest, The Last Party.
5. “You’d glance in”: Wallace Potts.
6. “We were isolated”: Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples.
7. “Stage is a cathedral”: RN/EK.
8. “There’s almost a fanatical religious”: Quoted in DD.
9. “always white, always”: unedited “Magic of Dance” footage, courtesy of Wallace Potts.
10. “He’s soaking in moonlight”: Ibid.
11. “There was an innocence”: Ninette de Valois, Step by Step.
12. “as if hungering”: Cyril Beaumont, The Complete Book of Ballets.
13. “always some reciprocal”: To Gruen, After Dark, April 1976.
14. “quite cold”: Marie Rambert letter to Lincoln Kirstein, August 30, 1978.
15. “the next heir apparent”: Robert Tracy.
16. “Rudolf, if you stay here”: Quoted in Esquire, March 1991.
17. “be carried by”: RN/NG.
18. “I have dream”: To John Gruen, sound recording, December 24, 1975, NYDL.
19. “For people who knew the play”: Patricia Ruanne, Dance Now, Spring 2002, 11, no. 1.
20. “is definitely not cups”: To Richard Davies, Classical Music, February 7, 1977.
21. “had in common sex and violence”: To Jacqueline Cartier, L’Avant Scène: Ballet/Danse: Romeo et Juliette, 1984.
22. “that was dark, anguished”: Ibid.
23. “when good … very, very good”: James Monahan, DT, July 1977.
24. “one extraordinary week”: Alastair Macaulay, Times Literary Supplement, May 9, 2003.
25. “uneven and uneasy”: Dance News, February 1978.
26. “suddenly brilliant”: Ibid.
27. “triumphant”: Ibid.
28. “less forced and separate”: Dance News, December 1977.
29. “twilight zone … made a liar”: Martin Bernheimer, La Times September 8, 1977.
30. “seemed forced”: D&D, March 1978.
31. “roaring back”: Bob Micklin, Newsday, April 19, 1978.
32. “at his most thrilling”: Anna Kisselgoff, NYT, April 19, 1978.
33. “still perfectly capable”: Micklin, Newsday, April 19, 1978.
34. “choreographed for him”: Murray Louis.
35. “like having a ball of energy”: RN, NYT, April 9, 1978.
36. “a feeble try at humor”: Newsday, April 19, 1978.
37. “He often told me so”: Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.
38. “mind broke … because”: Unmarked clipping.
39. “time to indulge”: Saturday Review, November 11, 1978.
40. “in the atmosphere of Bakst”: NYT, March 4, 1979.
41. “like a skin disease … There are two ways”: Ibid.
42. “creaturely warmth … pose to pose”: Croce, “Nureyev as Nijinsky,” Going to the Dance.
43. “expressive, hollowed-out”: Hubert Saal, Newsweek, March 19, 1979.
44. “He is a truly terrible”: Croce, “Nureyev as Nijinsky,” Going to the Dance.
45. “a gift from God”: Patricia Neary, DS.
46. “entering the ideal future”: Joan Acocella, Mikhail Baryshnikov in Black and White.
47. “Tell Rudolf if he wants … Nothing much … I’m not an optimist”: To Moira Hodgson, NYT, May 8, 1979.
48. “no hype or hullabaloo”: Cue, March 30, 1979.
49. “I think Balanchine was surprised”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.
50. “If anything happens to George”: I nb B.
51. “Are you going to go home … He learns so slowly”: Quoted in DS.
52. “All I can remember”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.
53. “one of those developments”: Croce, “Bourgeois and Blank,” Going to the Dance.
54. “if he had any idea”: Gelsey Kirkland with Greg Lawrence, Dancing on My Grave.
55. “My advice to you”: Letter from Richard Buckle to RN, June 18, 1979.
56. “believe it or not”: Letter from Richard Buckle to Lincoln Kirstein, August 31, 1979.
57. “You may think me manic”: Letter from Richard Buckle to NG, July 14, 1979.
58. “the lackey who carried”: Robert Tracy.
59. “there were going to be lots of boys”: Guardian, January 30, 2003.
60. “Stavros was always competing”: Rosemarie Kanzler, quoted in DS.
61. “this blond nothing … None of us could see”: Tessa Kennedy.
62. “he was upset with Sandor”: MG.
63. “Reading Byron non-stop”: Saturday Review, November 11, 1978.
64. “a wild mountain colt … the feeling of belonging to no country … To seek abroad”: Fiona MacCarthy, Byron: Life and Legend.
65. “a pompous bore”: Saturday Review.
66. “All that torment”: Guardian, June 12, 1972.
67. “most favourite”: Saturday Review.
68. “It became my ‘Bible’ ”: Guardian, June 12, 1972.
69. “the heavy-gay, pre-AIDS”: Amis, Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions.
70. “What an antithetical mind”: and subsequent quotations, Byron, Selected Letters and Journals, December 6, 1819.
71. “half dust, half deity”: Manfred, act 1, sc. 2, 1. 40.
72. “Alas, alas”: Anne Duvernoy, Danse, janvier 1980.
73. “Not only did the relentlessly”: Dance News, February 1980.
74. “sort of his trademark”: MB/JA.
75. “lesson in simplicity”: Newsday, April 8, 1989.
76. “It’s baffling to see him chunter”: DT, August 1982.
77. “a few flashes of bravura”: Chicago Tribune, undated clipping.
78. “the beginning, the middle”: MacCarthy, Byron.
79. “a little devil, an adventuress”: Leslie Caron.
80. “motivated by a kind of delirium”: source withheld.
81. “He would disappear in the function”: Quoted in DS.
82. “soaring beyond or sinking”: Byron, Lara, canto 1, xviii.
83. “There’s always the betrayal”: To Luke Jennings, Sunday Correspondent, May 27, 1990.
84. “an Ulsterman’s predilection”: Murland obituary, unmarked clipping.
85. “How else did a London banker”: source withheld.
86. “He would often arrive”: Keith Money.
87. “Charles was like an overprotective”: Gregory King.
88. “My doctor will send you”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.
89. “Speaking of bardashes”: Flaubert to Louis Bouilhet, Cairo, January 15, 1850, Flaubert in Egypt.
90. “the lecherous, blood-stained … It was a means”: Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony.
91. “Sex was very liberating”: NYT Magazine, December 13, 1981.
92. “venereal souvenirs”: Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, May 6, 2002.
93. “niece of ballet artist”: telex from American Embassy, Quito, RNA.
94. “a magic abode”: Tessa Kennedy.
95. “except bucket … new crew”: To Barry Norman, Bryony Brind, Omnibus, BBC Television, 1982.
96. “an old man”: Bruce Sansom.
97. “They were marvellous”: Brind, Omnibus.
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p; 98. “the ecstasy of socialism … Culture, Beauty”: Jane Kramer, The New Yorker, November 21, 1994.
99. “une menace de veto … Okay, Mitterrand agrees”: André Larquié.
100. “Ritorna vincitor!”: DS.
101. “proudly eminent”: Milton, Paradise Lost, book 1, l. 590. Ibid.
102. “God has put his foot”: To Michael Pye, Harpers & Queen, December 1982.
103. “unbelievable form … the best bedside clock”: Tessa Kennedy.
104. “He would sit me quietly”: LB.
105. “narrowly missing Franco”: Christopher Hampton.
106. “Come along, pony!” Quoted in PW.
107. “It may be that no successful man”: Esquire, March 1991.
108. “a devil, a born devil … a thing of darkness”: Ibid.
109. “higher spirit, his better self”: To Stoddart Martin, Avant-Garde, 1983.
110. “The tempest … is not something … Well, … I think”: Ibid.
111. “Spare, intense”: and subsequent quotations: Anne Barton, introduction to New Penguin Shakespeare, The Tempest, (London: Penguin, 1968).
112. “First I didn’t want to touch”: To Stoddart Martin, Avant-Garde, 1983.
113. “The whole thing is metaphor”: Ibid.
114. “We switch in a flash”: Sunday Times (London), December 5, 1982.
115. “his big fantasy”: Wallace Potts.
116. “looking like Rudolf in a skirt”: Tessa Kennedy.
117. “We talked Russian”: I nb B.
118. “They were coming to look”: Teddy Heywood.
17 • PYGMALION DIAGHILEV
1. “unable to explain”: Kirkland with Lawrence, Dancing on my Grave.
2. “la sacro-sainte hierarchie”: Le Figaro magazine, November 10, 1984.
3. “If you were good”: Raymonda documentary, NC@NYDL.
4. “He knew the importance”: SG.
5. “to force-feed”: NYT, April 9, 1983.
6. “a Bournonville course”: To Marcelle Michel, Le Monde Aujourd’hui, June 9 & 10, 1985.
7. “a fluster of waist wriggles”: Denby, “An Open Letter about the Paris Opera Ballet,” Dance Writings.
8. “attack on all fronts”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.
9. “I thought if they all”: Unpublished Vanity Fair article, RNA.
10. “Stanley was too private”: Ghislaine Thesmar.
11. garbo … “It’s more like Grace”: Eugene Polyakov; Maître de ballet, Choréographe, directed by Vladimir Kara, 2004, NC@NYDL.
12. “It’s only when”: Le Monde Aujourd’hui, June 9 & 10, 1985.
13. “Lifar was more than a star”: Dance Magazine, October 1997.
14. “incontestably the star”: Sunday Times (London), June 18, 1961.
15. “a diamond in the rough”: Dance Magazine, October 1997.
16. “almost certainly—if unwittingly”: June 18, 1961.
17. “choreographed entrance”: To Robert Tracy, transcript of RN introduction to Aleksandr Pushkin, The Golden Cockerel and Other Fairy Tales.
18. “a glamorous deco god”: Lynn Garafola, Dance Magazine, October 1997.
19. “I never do that again”: To Robert Gottlieb.
20. “kitsch, and ‘everything’ ”: Patricia Ruanne.
21. “a curious antimusical”: Denby, “An Open Letter …,” Dance Writings.
22. “not what Balanchine could be”: To Francis Mason, Ballet Review, Fall 1986.
23. “the Opéra cut itself off”: Le Monde Aujourd’hui, June 9 & 10, 1985.
24. “everywhere … In rehearsal halls”: Vidal, Palimpsest.
25. “not to be a new Lifar”: and subsequent quotes Le Monde Aujourd’ hui, June 9 & 10, 1985.
26. “fifty-fifty classical and contemporary”: Jean-Luc Choplin.
27. “second excruciating … to see the French cancan”: de Mille, Martha.
28. “notre Faust”: November 19, 1984, RNA.
29. “It does not seem that the French”: Le Monde Aujourd’hui, June 9 & 10, 1985.
30. “because that’s where it was invented”: Ibid.
31. “The Parisian audience like what is outré”: de Mille, Martha.
32. “that the British programs”: Marie-Françoise Christout, Ballet Annual, 1956.
33. “The French public want novelty”: Le Monde Aujourd’hui, June 9 & 10, 1985.
34. “cringe”: Denby, “An Open Letter,” Dance Writings.
35. “treated very unjustly”: l’Avant-Scène: Rudolf Noureev 1983/1985.
36. “I don’t even know”: Opéra de Paris 11, October 1, 1983.
37. “We were armed … everyone in the company”: Raymonda, documentary, NC@NYDL.
38. “I have finally found a nest”: Paris-Match, January 18, 1985.
39. “next passion”: Tessa Kennedy.
40. “They knew that after a performance”: Marie-Suzanne Soubie.
41. “dancing for the furniture”: Tessa Kennedy.
42. “I have only one dream”: Paris-Match, undated clipping.
43. “It could belong only”: Vanity Fair, January 1997.
44. “She expected complete loyalty”: James Douglas.
45. “an instrument in the hands”: typescript of Marie-Hélène de Rothschild article, RNA.
46. “Pinball machines. A garish”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.
47. “la prétendue maladie”: Willy Rozenbaum, La vie est une maladie sexuellement transmissible constamment mortelle.
48. “Something’s happened”: Ibid.
49. “It would become famous”: Luc Montagnier, Virus: The Co-Discoverer of HIV Tracks Its Rampage and Charts the Future.
50. “le secret médical”: Rozenbaum, La vie.
51. “that strange state”: Ibid.
52. “to make sure you’re ok”: Rock Hudson and Sara Davidson, Rock Hudson, His Story.
53. “If I tell people”: To Rudi van Dantzig, Unz.
54. “The brigand chief’s role”: DT, June 1981.
55. “gargouillades, ronds de jambe”: Olivier Merlin, Paris-Match, January 21, 1993.
56. “In the saraband”: Francine Lancelot, La Lettre de Rudolf journal des Adhérents du Cercle des Amis de Rudolf Noureev, 13 (winter 2004–5: “La Belle Dance”).
57. “a great solitude”: Ibid.
58. “I have been thrown”: Le Monde Aujourd’hui, June 9 & 10, 1985.
59. “Quand Noureev boxe”: France-Soir, August 5, 1984.
60. “Silva went up to him”: Valentina Mironova.
61. “They do each isolated gesture … a certain respiration”: l’Avant-Scène: Rudolf Noureev 1983/1985.
62. “like a tigress”: Violette Verdy, to Francis Mason, Ballet Review, fall 1986.
63. “We just take from the school”: unmarked clipping.
64. “fully informed … This was not a popular idea”: I nb B.
65. “I understand that you attach”: September 17, 1985, RNF.
66. “That’s how he really managed”: Patrice Bart, quoted in DS.
67. “I admit that those who know”: GB.
68. “tragic approximation … What a shame”: Quotidien de Paris, December 22, 1983.
69. “a kind of indicator … For me and my body”: GB.
70. Rudolf said, “The whole story”: Charles Jude.
71. “an ersatz Swan Lake”: Quoted in DS.
72. “minus six voices”: France-Soir, November 9, 1984.
73. “like a guilty man”: Marie-Suzanne Soubie.
74. “A school must not stay”: and subsequent RN quotations from his open letter to the Paris Opéra dancers, RNA.
75. “un gentleman agreement”: unmarked clipping.
76. “felt cheated”: March 11, 1985.
77. “He wanted to go toward”: SG.
78. “go and repair … Nobody felt insulted”: Ghislaine Thesmar.
79. “a lamb: very tender”: Jacques Loyau.
80. “this bitterness Genia felt”: Eugene Polyakov,
film, NC@NYDL.
81. “a rare quality of lightness”: Blue.
82. “this little girl”: Dominique Frétard, Invitation: Sylvie Guillem.
83. “screaming at each other”: Ghislaine Thesmar.
84. “I was too young”: SG.
85. “I learned a way of being”: Ibid.
86. “an untamed young animal”: Ghislaine Thesmar.
87. “part Garbo, part gamine”: Frétard, Invitation.
88. “That.… is my raison d’être”: January 18, 1984.
89. “a rare lapse in his”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.
90. “You can see Rudolf onstage”: Unz.
91. “somewhat unmusical”: D&D, November 1954.
92. “Swedish gymnastic exercises … tennis shirts”: Ballet Today, December 1954.
93. “Maybe not this year”: Unedited footage for “Sir Fred: A Celebration,” BBC-TV, 1988, courtesy of Wallace Potts.
94. “I spurned this”: To Anna Kisselgoff, NYT, July 8, 1986.
95. “Please go and see … With my little”: SG.
96. “No going”: unedited footage, “Sir Fred.”
97. “soft-pedaled”: Letter from Antony Tudor to MG, February 9, 1983.
98. “[Rudolf] should know well”: Ibid.
99. “Sometimes faced with”: La vie.
100. “I don’t have AIDS”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story.
101. “confident de nuit … the rival clavichord … I can play for hours”: Marie-Hélenè Rothschild article, RNA.
102. “It makes me feel that life”: NYT, June 14, 1987.
18 • DANCING WITH THE DEVIL
1. “The infectious pestilence”: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 5, scene 2, l. 10.
2. “of no longer dancing”: Petit, Temps liés.
3. “miserable pneumonia … You have proven”: June 18, 1985.
4. “heartbroken to watch”: Arlette Castanier.
5. “Charles loves money”: source withheld.
6. “Ives’s father was manager” and subsequent quotations: RN/EK.
7. “a choreographer of staggering”: Arlene Croce, “Nureyev and Baryshnikov: Paris and New York,” Sight Lines.
8. “like the first night”: Monica Mason. 596 “to have this stuff”: MG.
9. “incredible moments”: Marilyn La Vine.
10. “incisive strokes … careless feet”: Denby, “An Open Letter …,” Dance Writings.
11. “arabesque canapé”: Michael Slubicki e-mail to Alastair Macaulay.
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