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by Kavanagh, Julie


  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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