Nureyev : The Life (9780307807342)
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4. “an awful black plastic number”: Derek Jarman, Dancing Ledge.
5. “a little ballet”: D&D, April 1967.
6. “Frey’s not even a star”: MG.
7. “much obsessed”: Unedited footage, “Sir Fred: a Celebration,” courtesy of Wallace Potts.
8. “a direct affront to”: Horst Koegler, D&D, December 1968.
9. “If Covent Garden can’t”: Nureyev, Thames TV, 1981, NC@NYDL.
10. “everything everywhere”: To Terry, Theatre Arts, July 1962.
11. “Idea was not just”: Unedited “Magic of Dance” footage, NC@NYDL.
12. “When I came to the West”: To John Gruen, transcript for NYT article, April 18, 1974.
13. “his whole foot seeming to caress”: DT, March 1966.
14. “It has taken a very long time”: D&D, January 1972.
15. “no more than Puccini”: Realities 182, January 1966.
16. “You have Isaac Stern, Richter”: unmarked clipping.
17. “does not depend on”: Agnes de Mille, Martha.
18. “allows one to delve”: unedited “Magic of Dance” footage.
19. “Martha did all the ballets”: To Jane Perlez, New York Post, undated clipping.
20. “With these new movements”: Eg B.
21. “large, magical aura”: Arlene Croce, The New Yorker, November 11, 1974.
22. “crash the gates”: Gruen transcript.
23. “like a medieval fortress”: l’Avant-Scène: Rudolf Noureev 1983/1985.
24. “He took the plunge”: Murray Louis, Inside Dance.
25. “a sort of bastard”: D&D, May 1966.
26. “I thought, ‘That’s not’ ”: Unedited “Magic of Dance” footage.
27. “The Soviet ballet”: To Francine Stock, Guardian Week-End, January 1, 1994.
28. “to create a character”: A Bl, Observer.
29. “a pretty impressive”: Peter Williams, D&D, February 1970.
30. “yawns of exasperation … Oh dear!”: Peter Williams, D&D, May 1969.
31. “ugly … pullings across”: Cecil Beaton, unpublished diaries, quoted in DS.
32. “Oh dear!”: DT, May 1969.
33. “contemptible farrago”: Cl B, NYT undated clipping.
34. “except for that Royal Charter”: Letter from Lincoln Kirstein to Richard Buckle, April 12, 1969.
35. “to run a national company”: Quoted in DD.
36. “the finest classical stylist”: Croce, “The Royal Ballet in New York,” Afterimages.
37. “discreetly become even more”: Beaton, unpublished diaries, DS.
38. “There are times when”: NYT, May 1, 1969.
39. “va-va-voom”: DS.
40. “It was just a shell”: Robert Hutchinson.
41. “the pansy men”: Internet comment.
42. “partner in crime”: Wallace Potts.
43. “daisy chains of fucking”: Internet comment.
44. “a bit of a melting pot”: Christopher Gibbs.
45. “Every time”: Quoted in DS.
46. “Gargantuan throne”: Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties.
47. “A vague host”: Ibid.
48. “He’d asked her to do something”: MG.
49. “It is like somebody who speaks”: van Dantzig, quoted in Unz.
50. “so similar to the performances”: Mary Clarke, DT, undated clipping.
51. “the most wanton”: Croce, “The Royal Ballet in New York,” Afterimages.
52. “zoomed right in … a bit like … purely because of”: Gailene Stock.
53. “teacher, friend … What? When?… The only thing”: Carolyn Soutar, The Real Nureyev.
54. “Je t’attends”: Jean-Claude Brialy, J’ai oublié de vous dire.
55. “all kinds of hindering … as with Moira Shearer … I thought if you do”: RN/EK.
56. “stars—everything” and subsequent quotations: Ibid.
57. “sort of half-assed”: February 12, 1970.
58. “There was not enough money”: Edward Albee.
59. “this big, beautiful”: and subsequent Baryshnikov quotations: MB/JA.
60. “mental outrage and physical anguish”: Seymour, Lynn: The Autobiography.
61. “I don’t want the audience”: Greg Lawrence, Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins.
62. “Rudi—is Rudi”: Deborah Jowitt, Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance.
63. “love & being & togetherness”: Ibid.
64. “He conforms, but he is also”: DT, December 1970.
65. “a feeling of the muscularity”: D&D, December 1970.
66. “We’re all still alive, we’re all still on the earth”: To Barbara Newman, Antoinette Sibley.
67. “punch & sharp & dramatically”: Jowitt, Jerome Robbins.
68. “part of the company”: RN/EK.
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1. “total-theater concept”: Marie-Françoise Christout s.v. “Béjart,” International Enycyclopedia of Dance.
2. “the boys in their blue jeans”: Croce, “Folies Béjart,” Afterimages.
3. “a genius—a marvelous”: Paolo Bortoluzzi to John Gruen, The Private World of Ballet.
4. “the guru of classicism”: Robert Denvers.
5. “Agitation. Vide. Paresse.”: Maurice Béjart, La vie de qui? Memoires 2.
6. “that world of nonsense … Béjart fell in love with stars”: Robert Denvers.
7. “an alien and diseased”: Croce, “Folies Béjart,” Afterimages.
8. “as if Farrell had run off”: The New Yorker, January 6, 2003.
9. “no other star than Béjart”: Les Saisons de la Danse, April 1985.
10. “if Nureyev will accept”: Dance Magazine, January 1971.
11. “[Rudolf] understood that”: Béjart, La vie de qui?
12. “Public carried on”: To Lindsay Anderson, Omnibus, BBC-TV, 1974, NC@NYDL.
13. “He knew—he didn’t need Rudolf”: Menia Martinez.
14. “For the first time in my life”: l’Avant scène: Rudof Noureev 1983/1985.
15. “with a sort of drunkenness”: Les Saisons de la Danse, April 1985.
16. “to not use all my ideas”: Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker.
17. “Neoclassicism … exemplified by”: Villella, Prodigal Son.
18. “Royal Ballet would not let me dance Apollo”: I nb B.
19. “dying to do … Nureyev is anything”: Quoted in DD.
20. “a wild, half-human youth … Etruscan … archaic”: Arlene Croce, “News from the Muses,” Going to the Dance.
21. “He becomes god by the end”: BBC compilation, courtesy of Wallace Potts.
22. “really extremely good in it”: Quoted in DD.
23. “the perfect expression of the Apollonian”: Croce, “News from the Muses,” Going to the Dance.
24. “the meaning of every moment”: I nb B.
25. “All his elementary powers”: D&D, February 1968.
26. “You know, I was in Soviet Union”: Villella, Prodigal Son.
27. “Soccer Step … He was telling me”: Ibid.
28. “strangely enough”: Quoted in DD.
29. “baptism of fire”: Nureyev, Thames TV, 1981, NC@NYDL.
30. “hours and hours just”: Deanne Bergsma to Newman, Striking a Balance.
31. “the other face of Romanticism”: Observer, January 30, 1972.
32. “a little bit B picture”: Quoted in DD.
33. “a trojan worker … again and again”: Richard Cragun.
34. “Without her, Raymonda is not”: To John Gruen, for NYT article, April 18, 1974.
35. “three more than Petipa”: Croce, “Separate Worlds,” Afterimages.
36. “to keep [him] out of the theater”: LB.
37. “go and choose brain”: Eg B. 438 “Well, it’s a remarkable thing”: Quoted in DD.
38. “So, we became friends”: Eg B.
39. “did realiz
e that this guy”: Quoted in DD.
40. “a major establishment”: Croce, “Taylor in Excelsis,” Going to the Dance.
41. “Everything happens in rehearsals”: Quoted in DD.
42. “ethereal, uplifted, open”: Sally Banes, Connoisseur, March 1986.
43. “I knew it would be difficult”: To Laura Bell, Show magazine, undated clipping.
44. “to switch over”: Paul Taylor.
45. “The style no one could”: Taylor quoted in DD.
46. “I hadn’t realized how”: To Bell, Show.
47. “He did not come as a”: Quoted in DD.
48. “all that monkey business … I told him”: John Gruen, The Private World of Ballet.
49. “a rapturous reception”: Keith Money, s.v. “Wall,” International Dictionary of Ballet.
50. “I used to fly to Paris”: Blue.
51. “dead against”: Betty Oliphant.
52. “the parsley round the salmon”: Betty Oliphant documentary, “A Life in Dance,” produced and directed by Gil Gauvreau, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1999.
53. “What we hadn’t expected”: Veronica Tennant, script for 1993 CBS telecast of The Sleeping Beauty.
54. “as if a door was opening”: Frank Augustyn.
55. “Pillars were being thrown away”: Veronica Tennant.
56. “didn’t get into my soup”: Neufeld, Power to Rise.
57. “Try to find impulse”: Linda Maybarduk, The Dancer Who Flew.
58. “She suggested you try for strength”: Tennant CBS script.
59. “You have to give everything”: Sergiu Stefanschi.
60. “Tell them to play the whole thing”: Betty Oliphant.
61. “With Rudi, we came of age”: Tennant CBS script.
62. “let his feelings come seething”: Ann Barzel, quoted in DS.
63. “The minute they get hold of you”: To Philip Oakes, unmarked clipping.
64. “One day Rudolf say, ‘What camera’ ”: Quoted in DD.
65. “inoffensive stills photographer”: Bryan Forbes, A Divided Life.
66. “to do for ballet what Singing in the Rain”: Wallace Potts, Nureyev conference, St. Petersburg, March 13–15, 1998.
67. “real as real”: Lucette Aldous.
68. “We had a director for a day … Provided you don’t delude him”: A Little Bit of Don Quixote, documentary on the making of the film, NC@NYDL.
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1. “like a character out of Dickens”: Wallace Potts.
2. “an all-party place”: Terence Benton.
3. “That’s what Rudolf got out of it”: Ibid.
4. “ignorant of life”: Benton, unpublished memoir, chapter 1, “The First Defectors.”
5. “She took a taxi home”: Lubov Filatova.
6. “I am Armen Bali”: Outline of unpublished Armen Baliantz autobiography.
7. “ ‘Do like Margot—puff up’ ”: Karen Kain with Stephen Godfrey and Penelope Reed Doob, Movement Never Lies: An Autobiography.
8. “an unexpected blend”: Boston Globe, September 22, 1972.
9. “The audience knew it was hubris”: Ellen Forman, unmarked clipping.
10. “totally unmusical”: John Gruen transcript for NYT article, April 18, 1974.
11. “a drama about freedom”: Croce, “Swans,” Afterimages.
12. “decided to be Sleeping Beauty”: Gruen transcript.
13. “announcing to the world”: Ibid.
14. “almost masochistically”: John Gruen, “Three Nights with Nureyev, from the Nureyev Diaries,” Christopher Street 223, March 1995.
15. “là première ‘one man show’ de la danse”: André-Philippe Hersin, Les Saisons de la Danse 66 (summer 1974).
16. “one of the last courtesans”: source withheld.
17. “Present at all the great moments”: Hugues Gall.
18. “the greatest male dancer”: Croce, “Makarova’s Miracle,” Afterimages.
19. “a different ballet”: MB/JA.
20. “his lodestar, a fantasy figure”: Charles France.
21. “no spirit, no soul, no trembling”: Eg B.
22. “Misha may well be”: EB.
23. “Erik told me I WILL KILL HIM”: Letter from Lincoln Kirstein to Richard Buckle, May 21, 1974.
24. “a perfect way to release”: EB.
25. “each step one of them”: Quoted in DS.
26. “amazed that a Russian … cold power … an incredible white”: EB.
27. “So you’re with Erik”: Quoted in DS.
28. “He was dying to hear”: Tessa Kennedy.
29. “A fortune-teller … Breakfast in London”: Armen Baliantz autobiography outline.
30. “burst into screams … These are not spectacular ballets”: National Observer January 25, 1975.
31. “the ballet world’s no. 1”: January 19, 1975.
32. “I said to him, ‘Rudik’ ”: EB.
33. “egotistical vulgarity”: undated letter from NdV to NG.
34. “a senseless moneymaking”; and subsequent NdV quotes, Ibid.
35. “the hysterical … to lick the whole map … He would never stay”: To Houseal, Ballet Review, Summer 1994.
36. “the most aristocratic style”: Quoted in DD.
37. “for Maude reads—and often amends”: NG letter, March 12, 1975.
38. “a modest figure”: proof dated November 6, 1986, NG archives.
39. “instinctively sympathetic”: Terence Kilmartin, Observer of the Dance.
40. “who excited me … to catch up … had to see more”: RN, ibid.
41. “the complete alphabet”: To John Gruen, sound recording, November 3, 1975, NYDL.
42. “Merce [Cunningham] and Paul”: Robert Tracy, Goddess.
43. “the post-Freudian psyche”: The New Yorker, May 9, 2005.
44. “an incredible command”: John Gruen, After Dark, April 1976.
45. “giant dildos”: The New Yorker, February 19 & 26, 2001.
46. “the cry from her vagina”: de Mille, Martha.
47. “he did not like my dance”: Martha Graham, Blood Memory.
48. “I’m not very good with words”: Gruen, After Dark.
49. “brutality, even savagery”: de Mille, Martha.
50. “That was that”: Gruen, After Dark.
51. “enraptured selfishness”: Walter Prude quoted in de Mille, Martha.
52. “a lucifer—he brought light”: RN/EK.
53. “Rudolf is not a substitute”: undated clipping, NYT.
54. “to gibber-jabber … sounding like a monkey”: Ibid.
55. “Martha had movement”: Tracy, Goddess.
56. “because of her fourth … Go directly … Martha wouldn’t let me”: Ibid.
57. “bourrées on the knees”: Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, May 9, 2005.
58. “the life impulse … Arch the spine … much as the thong … a descent and lowering”: de Mille, Martha.
59. “Be comfortable”: Daneman, Margot Fonteyn.
60. “like silk”: MF quoted in Graham, Blood Memory.
61. “not a shred of continuity”: Acocella, The New Yorker, May 9, 2005.
62. “This was not just a new period”: Ibid.
63. “The element of camp … blown out like”: Croce, “Personal Appearance,” Afterimages.
64. “a passable portrayal”: Terry, Saturday Review, February 7, 1976.
65. “a publicity stunt with me”: Tracy, Goddess.
66. “life was radically different”: Edmund White, The Burning Library.
67. “venereal boiler-rooms”: Martin Amis, Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions.
68. “So.… it’s always bandages”: To Jane Perlez, New York Post, July 19, 1975.
69. “In those few minutes”: Louis, Inside Dance.
70. “for male dancers”: To Gruen, sound recording, November 3, 1975.
71. “We’re comfortable”: To Ellen Jacobs, unmarked clipping, April 24, 1978.
72. “to support Fonteyn … left dangling”: Dance News, January 1976.
73. “Well, Royal Ballet doesn’t hire”: To Gruen, NYT, April 18, 1974.
74. “Genuine respect … The oneness”: To Gruen, sound recording, November 3, 1975.
75. “After every performance”: To Gruen, NYT, April 18, 1974.
76. “When my time comes”: RN/EK.
77. “a work-in-progress”: Terry, Saturday Review, February 7, 1976.
78. “fierceness of belief”: Cl B’s N.
79. “I don’t claim to be an expert”: To Hubert Saal, December 22, 1975.
80. “Even the preparation”: Quoted in DD.
81. “beat the hell … that awful confrontation”: Time, January 27, 1975.
82. “I had some very rough moments”: To Carol Lawson, NYT, May 9, 1976.
83. “The old Nureyev magic”: NYT, April 22, 1976.
84. “to quiet down”: Lawson, NYT, May 9, 1976.
85. “I thought it would force me”: Gruen, After Dark.
86. “He would hold”: A Bl, The Nureyev Valentino.
87. “He will slither down the tree”: Newsweek, July 27, 1964.
88. “The person is without doubt”: “Le Cinéma de Rudolf Noureev,” Studio Magazine, May 1987.
89. “very keen on the girls”: Leslie Caron.
90. “a very fascinating type … hard and empty”: Gruen, Christopher Street.
91. “I hope you understand”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.
92. “Just because you play cunt in film”: Leslie Caron.
93. “so mischievous, so game”: Stuart, Perpetual Motion.
94. “Kenrussellisé à mort”: L’Express, September 12–18, 1977.
95. “All my films are choreography”: A Bl, The Nureyev Valentino.
96. “Most directors start from”: Ibid.
97. “tantalizing”: Croce, “Nureyev as Nijinsky,” Going to the Dance.
98. “There is no artistry”: and subsequent quotations Pauline Kael, When the Lights Go Down.
99. “willing to be used for that”: Quoted in Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau.
100. “the mother we all wanted to have”: Quoted in The Tatler, undated clipping.
101. “He speaks holiday”: Quoted by Kenneth Tynan, Memorial Service Address.
102. “a slight anxiety … You don’t see men dancing”: Time, January 27, 1975.
103. “astounding … was there no room”: van Dantzig, Het spoor van een komeet.
104. “I was bored … You move so well … I went the same”: MB/JA.