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

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

1/77 - 2/77 - Paris - Nureyev Festival, Palais des Sports.  Scottish Ballet: La Sylphide (Makarova), Giselle (Seymour), Moments, Four Schumann Pieces (with dancers from National Ballet of Canada).  Pierrot Lunaire, Wayfarer, The Lesson (Flindt, Eliasen, Vessel).

2/77 - Toronto - National Ballet: Giselle

3/1 - 20/77 - New York - Nureyev and Friends, Uris Theatre: Pierrot Lunaire, Wayfarer, The Lesson (Flindt, Eliasen, Vessel).

3/7/77 - New York - Fonteyn and Nureyev interviewed by John Gruen at Town Hall.

3/31/77 - New York - RN letter to NY Times regarding Helsinki Accords and visas for his family.

4/77 - London - Choreographing/rehearsing new R & J with London Festival Ballet.

5/13/77 - Washington - RN testified before the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe regarding visas for his family.

5/30/77 - London - Queen's Silver Jubilee Gala: Hamlet and Ophelia (Fonteyn/Ashton).

6/2 - 7/16/77 - London - Nureyev Festival, Coliseum.  London Festival Ballet: R & J (Ruanne), Giselle, (Makarova and Evdokimova).  Nureyev and Friends: Les Sylphides (Fonteyn, Makarova, Seymour), Corsaire (Makarova), M & A Pierrot Lunaire (Flindt, Eliasen), The The Toreador (Makarova or Linda Hindberg), The Lesson (Flindt, Makarova or Vessel).

9/77 - Los Angeles, Chicago - National Ballet of Canada: Giselle, Swan Lake.

9/77 - Montreal - National Ballet of Canada: Beauty.

10/77 - London - Taping of Muppets - shown on ITV in December.  The Muppet Show

10/77 - Premiere of "Valentino"

10/77 to 7/78 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Sleeping Beauty.

11/10/77 - London - Petition presented to Russian embassy by Fonteyn, and other dancers.

11/19 to 12/77 - Vienna - Vienna State Opera: Don Quixote, Swan Lake (Cynthia Gregory), debut in Adagio Hammerklavier (Radius), Wayfarer (Bortoluzzi), Apollo.

77/78 - Venice - Giselle (Terabust).

1/18 0 2/19/78 - Paris - London Festival: R & J (Ruanne, Evdokimova, Terabust, Seymour).

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