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The Dancer Who Flew, A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev, by Linda Maybarduk

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

 


6/58 - Leningrad & Moscow -  Public performance with Kirov as student: Nutcracker, Swan Lake pas, Diana and Acteon, Gayane, Corsaire

58/59 - Leningrad - Repertoire as member of Kirov: Laurencia, Valse Volonte, The Red Poppy

59/60 - Leningrad - Repertoire with Kirov: Don Quixote, Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird), Raymonda pas de quatre, Gayane, Moszkovsky Waltz, Giselle

12/14/59 - Leningrad - First Giselle

60/61 - Leningrad - Repertoire with Kirov: Flames of Paris pas, Yakobson Waltz, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Taras Bulba

5/19/61 - Paris - Kirov at Paris Opera: La Bayadere.  Additional performances through 5/30/61 - Giselle and extracts from Nutcracker and Taras Bulba

6/61 - Paris - Rudolf Nureyev awarded 1961 Nijinsky Prize.

6/3/61 - Paris - Kirov at Palais des Sports: Swan Lake (Moiseyeva)

6/16/61 - Paris - Defection at Le Bourget Airport

6/20/61 - Paris - Hired by de Cuevas.

6/23/61 - Paris - de Cuevas: Sleeping Beauty, danced Prince Florimond (Vyroubova)

6/30/61 - Paris - de Cuevas: Sleeping Beauty/Bluebird (Consuelo); near riot in the Theatre des Champs-Elysées.

9/61 - Europe - On tour with de Cuevas: France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Israel.  Studied with Volkova in Denmark.

10/61 - Frankfurt - First western TV - Giselle Act II (Skorik) and Spectre de la Rose (Deege).

11/2/61 - London - RAD Matinee Gala: Scriabin's Poeme Tragique choreographed by Frederick Ashton and Black Swan pas de deux  (Rosella Hightower) at the Drury Lane Theatre.

11/12/61 - London - Buckle: "Nureyev Should Join Royal."

1/5/62  - Marseilles - La Fille Mal Gardee (Hightower)

1/6/62 - Cannes - Concert performances with Bruhn, Hightower and Arova: aslo in Paris

1/10/62 - London - BBC - TV: Nutcracker pas (Hightower)

1/19/62 - New York - NBC - TV: Flower Festival (Tallchief); first American appearance.

2/21/62 - London - Royal: Giselle, danced with Margot Fonteyn for the first time.

3/10/62 - Brooklyn - Brooklyn Academy of Music with Ruth Page's Chicago Opera: Don Quixote pas (Sonia Arova)

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