LEADER 05162nam 22006374a 450 001 9910452316203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73083-1 010 $a9786611730833 010 $a0-300-13071-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300130713 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472172 035 $a(EBL)3419842 035 $a(OCoLC)923587742 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000175851 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11170381 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175851 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10204310 035 $a(PQKB)11652679 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165586 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419842 035 $a(DE-B1597)485218 035 $a(OCoLC)1024027785 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300130713 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419842 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10167890 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173083 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472172 100 $a20010426d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aI, Maya Plisetskaya$b[electronic resource] /$fMaya Plisetskaya ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis ; foreword by Tim Scholl 210 $aNew Haven ;$aLondon $cYale University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (405 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-08857-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aThe dacha and Sretenka Street -- What I was like at five -- Relatives -- Spitzbergen -- I study ballet -- Back in school and father's arrest -- My mother disappears -- Chimkent -- Concert for the Cheka -- Tchaikovsky's ?Impromptu? -- The war -- My first year at the Bolshoi Theater -- The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage -- Mastering the ABCs of the theater -- ?Raymonda? -- ?Swan Lake? -- Youth festivals -- My injuries, my healers -- Who'll get whom! -- Stalin's birthday -- I dance in ?Don Quixote? -- I dance in Golovanov's opera -- Life on the road and the end of the Stalinist era -- My trip to India -- Persecution -- How I didn't go to London -- While the company was in London -- How I dressed -- What a person needs -- Shchedrin -- Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect -- I go to America -- Seventy-three days -- How we were paid -- Paris meetings -- Work with Yakobson -- Why I did not stay in the West -- Marc Chagall draws me -- November 20 -- How ?Carmen Suite? was born -- Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Bjart -- A lyrical digression -- My ballets -- My ballets (continued) -- I want justice -- Work in Italy -- Work in Spain -- Untitled -- Years of wandering -- Curfew. 330 $aMaya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey, presenting a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during the troubled period from the late 1930's to the 1990's. Plisetskaya recounts the execution of her father in the Great Terror and her mother's exile to the Gulag. She describes her admission to the Bolshoi in 1943, the roles she performed there, and the endless petty harassments she endured, from both envious colleagues and Party officials. Refused permission for six years to tour with the company, Plisetskaya eventually performed all over the world, working with such noted choreographers as Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart. She recounts the tumultuous events she lived through and the fascinating people she met-among them the legendary ballet teacher Agrippina Vaganova, George Balanchine, Frank Sinatra, Rudolf Nureyev, and Dmitri Shostakovich. And she provides fascinating details about testy cocktail-party encounters with Khrushchev, tours abroad when her meager per diem allowance brought her close to starvation, and KGB plots to capitalize on her friendship with Robert Kennedy. Gifted, courageous, and brutally honest, Plisetskaya brilliantly illuminates the world of Soviet ballet during an era that encompasses both repression and cultural détente. Still prima ballerina assoluta with the Bolshoi Ballet, Maya Plisetskaya also travels around the world performing and lecturing. At the Bolshoi's gala celebrating her 75th birthday, President Vladimir Putin presented her with Russia's highest civilian honor, the medal for service to the Russian state, second degree. Tim Scholl is professor of Russian language and literature at Oberlin College. Antonina W. Bouis is the prize-winning translator of more than fifty books, including fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by such figures as Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, and Dmitri Shostakovich. 606 $aBallerinas$zSoviet Union$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBallerinas 676 $a792.8/028/092 676 $aB 700 $aPliset?skai?a$b Mai?i?a Mikhai?lovna$f1926-$01048544 701 $aBouis$b Antonina W$01033753 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452316203321 996 $aI, Maya Plisetskaya$92476905 997 $aUNINA