Nureyev : The Life (9780307807342)

by Kavanagh, Julie

  12. “With the sweat comes”: Violette Verdy.

  13. “This practice or that pleasure”: Willy Rozenbaum, La vie.

  14. “Rudolf wasn’t a person to deny”: Linda Maybarduk.

  15. “a sylvan blond … With one last swallow”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.

  16. “My own contribution … She is certain”: Letter from Armand Schönfrucht, December 17, 1985.

  17. “with joy”: September 19, 1985.

  18. “in love and admiration … a miraculous Christmas present”: December 27, 1984.

  19. “to kind of consecrate”: Robert Denvers.

  20. “Béjart was a little bit in love”: Quoted in DS.

  21. “Nureyev agrees, you can go”: Maurice Béjart, La Vie de Qui?

  22. “monstrous anger”: Ibid.

  23. “embrouille a l’opéra”: Le Matin de Paris, undated clipping.

  24. “phantom of the Opera”: Ibid.

  25. “Mephisto contre le fantôme”: Événement du jeudi, undated clipping.

  26. “A furious desire to defeat”: Mario Pasi typescript, RNA.

  27. “The Opéra Ballet”: Le Quotidien de Paris no 1994, April 19 & 20, 1986.

  28. “avoid works like Chat Botté”: Letter to Larquié, December 11, 1985.

  29. “They don’t like foreigners”: Bernard Taper, Balanchine.

  30. “a near-hysterical”: NYT July 10, 1986.

  31. “as the butter to bind”: NYT, July 9, 1986.

  32. “This was very much”: NYT, July 10, 1986.

  33. “The French won hands down!” New York Post, undated clipping.

  34. “Misha Baryshnikov and me … I think Kirov and Moscow”: RN/EK.

  35. “Nureyev’s goddamn ronds de jambes”: MB/JA.

  36. “This kind of dancing was new”: Zöe Anderson, The Royal Ballet.

  37. “The real surprise”: Croce, “Nureyev and Baryshnikov,” Sight Lines.

  38. “half the dancers were with Rudolf”: Robert Tracy.

  39. “woefully dated … Lifar’s company”: Ballet Review, summer 1993.

  40. “unforgettably awful”: Francis Mason, Ballet Review, fall 1986.

  41. “an ignominious assault”: Croce, “Nureyev and Baryshnikov,” Sight Lines.

  42. “a resounding transatlantic”: Cl B, New York Post, July 21, 1986.

  43. “the sensation of the year”: Anna Kisselgoff, NYT, July 14, 1986.

  44. “Come back soon!”: New York Post, July 21, 1986.

  45. “Absolute peace—nothing but”: March 8, 1985.

  46. “They would fold it up”: Yasemin Pirinccioglu.

  47. “Take cinnabar”: The New Yorker, March 6, 2000.

  48. “free and happy”: Yasemin Pirinccioglu.

  49. “eating me up until”: NYT, June 14, 1987.

  50. “thus assuring her immortality”: Janice Berman, unmarked clipping.

  51. “Mae West kind of figure”: NYT, June 14, 1987.

  52. “If you want to make fast”: Observer Review, June 28, 1987.

  53. “You want, you take”: Dominique Frétard, Invitation: Sylvie Guillem.

  54. “These superb artists”: Le Quotidien, October 27, 1986.

  55. “a triumph—the word”: Le Figaro, October 27, 1986.

  56. “burdened with guilt”: Jack Anderson, NYT, May 9, 1987.

  57. “second-rate awfulness”: Roy Strong, entry for July 13, 1983, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–1987.

  58. “depends on demand”: RN/EK.

  59. “heat, chaos, temper”: Wallace Potts.

  19 • A CIRCULAR CIRCLE. COMPLETE

  1. “shuttling between two”: and subsequent Evgenii Kozhevnikov quotations from Liuba Myasnikova’s unpublished memoir “Rudolf Nureyev: The Sixties and After.”

  2. “causing a great scandal”: Liuba Myasnikova.

  3. “might end up in Siberia”: Roch-Olivier Maîstre, quoted in DS.

  4. “Well, Liubashka, about time”: Myasnikova memoir.

  5. “I believe Mr. Brodsky”: NYT, November 15, 1987.

  6. “a cheap, tiny Muscovite”: Roch-Olivier Maîstre, quoted in DS.

  7. “the homage, the duty”: NYT Magazine, December 13, 1981.

  8. “Good, good. Splendid”: and subsequent Victor Vonog quotations and observations from transcript of interview, courtesy UTM.

  9. “masters of torture”: Maybarduk, The Dancer Who Flew.

  10. “I sort of regret that it”: LB.

  11. “he was estranged … hadn’t made any impression”: Razida Evgrafova.

  12. “she had a rather superior … more of a trouper”: Ghislaine Thesmar.

  13. “but he guessed that was why”: Letter from MG to Wallace Potts, February 12, 1988.

  14. “an ashen meditation”: Croce, “Repertory Dead and Alive,” Going to the Dance.

  15. “I certainly felt that”: July 25, 1988.

  16. “always had a job”: GB.

  17. “In the first place is music”: Ballet Review, Winter 1993.

  18. “Houses now cost … not on the water”: LB.

  19. “Finally, I thought that only”: Ottolenghi, Rudolf Nureyev Confessioni.

  20. “the mad Russian”: Léonide Massine, My Life in Ballet.

  21. “tastes like a poison … He built so many things”: LB. 631 “We argued for a while”: LB.

  22. “Voices were calling”: John Drummond, Speaking of Diaghilev.

  23. “deeply understood why”: SG.

  24. “art and love indissolubly”: Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, Misia: the Life of Misia Sert.

  25. “Rudolf is mad”: Bois.

  26. “knew he was wrong”: DS.

  27. “like chairmen of charity … tired of being … delusions of grandeur”: Profile by Jane Kramer, The New Yorker, November 21, 1994.

  28. “He wanted me to stay”: San Francisco Chronicle, February 4, 1990.

  29. “We spoke about The Brothers”: Quoted in DS.

  30. “not simply a Russian ballet”: 3 Yrs.

  31. “could still pull it off”: RN/EK.

  32. “it is out of the ruin”: Independent, August 31, 1990.

  33. “near-suicidal … I don’t have a contract … Bergé was furious”: Bois.

  34. “a terribly rude … He might be happier”: Letter from MF to MG, August 27, 1989.

  35. “and from there presumably”: Gold and Fizdale, Misia.

  36. “I’m sure the Danish boy”: Letter from MF to MG, August 27, 1989.

  37. “all dancers dream”: Late Night with David Letterman, NBC-TV, August 16, 1989.

  38. “redirect the croaking”: To Jennifer Dunning, NYT, August 16, 1989.

  39. “somehow did manufacture”: Good Morning America, ABC-TV, October 4, 1989.

  40. “how many weeks I rehearsed”: MB/JA.

  41. “high cheek bones”: Kael, When the Lights Go Down.

  42. “King is like me”: Maybauduk, The Dancer Who Flew.

  43. “Dancing is very much related”: Dance Magazine, May 1990.

  44. “dumb-footed”: Late Night, August 16, 1989.

  45. “He was angry with me”: Quoted in DS.

  46. “It shows onstage”: Unmarked clipping, November 21, 1979.

  47. “Almost every day he was”: David Richardson.

  48. “incompetent at the”: Kramer, The New Yorker, November 21, 1994.

  49. “My name was proposed”: RN/EK.

  50. “I can. This relation”: GB.

  51. “So come and dance”: Dance Magazine, May 1989.

  52. “I left USSR when”: To René Sirvin, Le Figaro, December 2–3, 1989.

  53. “they looked like people”: The Times Saturday Review (London), March 30, 1991.

  54. “he was still our Rudik”: Faina Rokhind.

  55. “He had one intention”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya.

  56. “There are many better versions”: Liuba Myasnikova.

  57. “My greatest worry”: To Sirvin, Le Figaro.

  58. “the same
old babushki”: LB.

  59. “brought nothing”: Tamara Zakrzhevskaya.

  60. “luxury costume … a whole pile”: Ibid.

  61. “No one wanted to take seriously”: Dance Magazine, May 1990.

  62. “show some style”: To Luke Jennings, Sunday Correspondent, May 27, 1990.

  63. “That stage is sacred”: Ibid. 650 “This was like a pilgrimage”: San Francisco Chronicle, February 4, 1990.

  64. “It’s a circular kind of circle”: Dutch TV footage, courtesy of Wallace Potts.

  65. “brilliant … a hint here”: Inna Sklarevskaya, Dance Magazine, May 1990.

  66. “a kind of caprice”: LB.

  20 • A FATALITY TO LIVE

  1. “Only if Nureyev comes”: Bois.

  2. “He’s a very nice boy”: Esquire, March 1991.

  3. “Dupond would be his poodle”: Hélène Traïline.

  4. “in accord with … Like many tens”: New York Native, February 1, 1993.

  5. “forbidding any and all”: Quoted by Andrew Grossman, June 13, 1986.

  6. “He was terrible in them”: Robert Gable.

  7. “Definitely, for him, it was a death”: Mikhail Baryshnikov quoted in The New Yorker, February 8, 1993.

  8. “When the lights are extinguished”: Opéra de Paris 11, October 1, 1983.

  9. “It is as if by way”: Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing.

  10. “Practice in nice warm weather”: RN/EK.

  11. “No paintings, no statues”: Blue.

  12. “If Rudolf invites you”: Querube Arias, quoted in DS.

  13. “My houses are all strange”: Quoted in DS.

  14. “wolves’ lairs”: Blue.

  15. “Like a wild animal”: Katrine Feric.

  16. “always naked … He wore a hat”: Blue.

  17. “You can play him at any tempo”: LB.

  18. “to trick his mind into”: Wallace Potts.

  19. “My son … if you want to live long”: To Roland Boker.

  20. “Without [it] there would not … I have brought it back … A love story which ended badly”: Événement du jeudi, October 8–14, 1992.

  21. “Nobody’s dying to delve”: RN/EK.

  22. “dry bread and it’s ingratitude”: Eg B.

  23. “I can’t accept it”: Daneman, Margot Fonteyn.

  24. “He was still her Romeo”: MT.

  25. “It just goes on and on”: Luke Jennings, Sunday Correspondent, May 27, 1990.

  26. “the dear friend of my soul”: La Prensa, March 18, 1987.

  27. “It was heartbreaking”: Quoted in DS.

  28. “Things that could not be faced … You’ve got two twin souls”: Quoted in Daneman, Margot Fonteyn.

  29. “Oh, take her here, there”: Jennings, Sunday Correspondent, May 27, 1990.

  30. “He couldn’t cope … Rudolf said, ‘What’s wrong’ ”: Daneman, Margot Fonteyn.

  31. “Rudolf just sat there”: Blue.

  32. “When you’re dead”: Mail on Sunday, July 3, 1983.

  33. “Conductors live a long, long time”: Blue.

  34. “to keep him going”: Quoted in DS.

  35. “that shit-boy”: Blue.

  36. “I guess I’ll close … barking up the wrong … the only thing left for me”: Times Saturday Review (London), March 30, 1991.

  37. “I had such beautiful hair … If you don’t have an orchestra”: Blue.

  38. “cries of refund, refund”: The Times, April 29, 1991.

  39. “Your newspapers are edited”: The Times, May 3, 1991.

  40. “He’ll end up badly”: To Cecil Beaton, The Parting Years.

  41. “This is preparation for”: Evening Standard, April 19, 1991.

  42. “How quick or flexible”: Justin Davidson, “Measure for Measure,” The New Yorker, August 21, 2006.

  43. “a conductor in front”: Cl B.

  44. “Rudolf had a good ear”: RN conference, St. Petersburg, March 13–15, 1998.

  45. “Molodetz!… Good for you”: Elle (U.S. ed.), March 1993.

  46. “made myself want”: San Francisco Examiner, July 12, 1992.

  47. “To wait until Nureyev arrives”: France-Soir, undated clipping.

  48. “feel as if I were being forced”: Vidal, Palimpsest.

  49. “I have no time”: Bois.

  50. “de ne plus interpreter”: letter from Maurice Béjart to RN, January 17, 1991.

  51. “really the end of his dancing”: letter from MG to Wallace Potts, November 30, 1991.

  52. “He confessed that he was lost”: and subsequent quotations from Yuri Gamaley, Mariinka and I.

  53. “one of those moments”: Quoted in DS.

  54. “all puffed up with pride”: Georgina Parkinson.

  55. “When am I going to conduct”: Quoted in DS.

  56. “It will take more than a chapel”: Ibid.

  57. “Petipa had great esteem”: Événement du jeudi, October 8–14, 1992.

  58. “une Bayadère Petipa, Kirov, vraie”: Bois.

  59. “It’s a duo”: Bayadère documentary, NC@NYDL.

  60. “Thousand and One Nights”: Événement du jeudi, October 8–14, 1992.

  61. “his AIDS-wasted body”: Vidal, Palimpsest.

  62. “He disappeared and came back”: Wallace Potts.

  63. “I feel the impulse”: Manfred, act 1, scene 2.

  64. “Life stirs my mind … thrilled, excited”: Dance Magazine, May 1990.

  65. “The masculine has become”: Événement du jeudi, October 8–14, 1992.

  66. “I was rather angry”: Bayadère documentary.

  67. “I will never forget”: Bois.

  68. “you weren’t allowed”: Linda Maybarduk.

  69. “At the Opéra I waited”: Événement du jeudi, October 8–14, 1992.

  70. “was very special”: Bayadère documentary.

  71. “et tous les Rothschilds”: René Sirvin, Le Figaro, October 11, 1992.

  72. “Crippled or wrapped”: Quoted in DS.

  73. “the imaginary Invalid”: Bois.

  74. “I think he was victorious”: Guardian undated clipping.

  75. “burning but unbent”: Byron, Le Corsaire, canto 2, stanza 10.

  76. “the essence, the heartbeat”: Janice Berman, New York Newsday, March 29, 1993.

  77. “When your dancers … breathe like one”: To Joan Buck, unpublished Vanity Fair article, RNA.

  78. “one big disappointment”: D&D, January 1993.

  79. “I want to sell myself”: Article on Grigorovich in program of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of Republic of Bashkortostan.

  80. “some free time left”: van Dantzig excerpt from Remembering Nureyev, D&D, January 1994.

  81. “the Importance of Uplifting”: James Redfield, The Celestine Vision.

  82. “You just wait till you drop”: Times Saturday Review (London), March 30, 1991.

  83. “He was very very weak”: MB/JA. 689 “Ah, the funeral march”: Quoted in DS.

  84. “By not discussing it”: Maybarduk, The Dancer Who Flew.

  85. “they began screaming”: Wallace Potts.

  86. “the power of these … That mixture”: Quoted in DS.

  87. “the trustees were afraid”: Glora Venturi.

  88. “When it seemed that”: Quoted in DS.

  89. “He is, you know, with all”: Countess Giovanna Augusta, unmarked clipping.

  90. “funny little hat”: Gloria Venturi.

  91. “reassuring him that”: Quoted in DS.

  92. “It occurred to me that”: Maybarduk, The Dancer Who Flew.

  93. “brought home to lie”: Paul Webster, Guardian, January 13, 1993.

  94. “the Opéra had been his fortress”: Paul Callan, Daily Express, January 12, 1993.

  95. “his home, his real home”: Webster, Guardian, January 13, 1993.

  96. “little piece of Russia”: Hélène Traïline.

  97. “Now, in death, as in”: Maybarduk, The Dancer Who Flew.

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sp; 98. “a kind of doomsday … of a cycle”: Bayadère documentary, NC@NYDL.

  99. “Oh God, we sensed him … I left the stage”: Ibid.

  100. “No reason it could not … nirvana of”: Croce, “Markova’s Miracle,” Afterimages.

  101. “some withered … A black horse”: Guardian Week-End, January 13, 2002.

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