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

Rudolf Nureyev's
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3/14/71 - Brussels - Maurice Béjart: Rite of Spring (learned in 3 days) and Songs of a Wayfarer (Nureyev and Paolo Bortoluzzi) (total of 8 performances)

3/14/71 - USA - TV: Paul Taylor's Big Bertha (deJong)

4/71 to 8/72 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, R & J, Beauty, Swan Lake, Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins), Apollo, Bayadere, Checkmate, Field Figures, Laborintus, M & A, Raymonda Act III, Nutcracker pas, R & J Balcony pas

5/13/71 - Paris - Rudolf Nureyev- his appearance last night at the well-filled Palais des Sports for the first of a series of 15 performances of "The Sleeping Beauty"

5/71 - Munich - Festival Week: La Sylphide (Evdokimova)

1971 June to August, Royal Opera Programme Notes: Rudolf Nureyev will be dancing in several different ballets, and with several different ballerinas.  He dances Siegfried in Swan Lake both with Monica Mason and Antoinette Sibley; in Romeo and Juliet he appears with Lynn Seymour; he partners Margot Fonteyn in Marguerite and Armand, and in Raymonda Act III partners both Svetlana Beriosova and Lynn Seymour; he dances the lead in Apollo, and takes part in both Dances at a Gathering performances.

6/15/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Swan Lake - Mason, Nureyev, Jenner, Penney, Coleman, Mead, Conductor: Lanchbery.

6/17/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Romeo and Juliet - Seymour, Nureyev, Blair, Doyle, Mead, Larsen, Conductor: Young.

6/21/71 - London - Royal Opera House- Romeo and Juliet, Seymour, Nureyev, Blair, Doyle, Mead, Larsen, Conductor: Young

6/22/71 - London - Fonteyn Gala at Coliseum: Breakfast at Dickybuckles (mime play)

6/23/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Marguerite and Armand, Fonteyn, Nureyev, Apollo - Nureyev, Beriosova, Derman, Parkinson.

6/25/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Apollo - Nureyev, Beriosova, Derman, Parkinson; Marguerite and Armand - Fonteyn, Nureyev.

7/6/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Apollo - Nureyev, Parkinson, Mason, Lorrayne; Marguerite and Armand, Fonteyn, Nureyev.

7/6/71 - New York - Tuesday Evening, July 6, 1971, New York City Ballet, Premiere Performance of Paquita restaged by Rudolf Nureyev, Cynthia Gregory, Michael Denard,  Karena Brock, Ellen Everette, Zhandra Rodriguez, Diana Weber, Gail Israel, Jacquelyn Marshall, Naomi Sorkin, Marianna Tcherkassky.

7/14/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Apollo, Nureyev, Parkinson, Mason, Lorrayne; Marguerite and Armand, Fonteyn, Nureyev.

7/27/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Apollo - Nureyev, Beriosova, O'Conaire, Lorrayne; Raymonda Act III, Seymour, Nureyev.

7/31/71 - London - Royal Opera House - 2:15 and 7:30 performances: Dances at a Gathering - Conner, Jenner, Mason, Seymour, Sibley, Coleman, Dowell, J. Kelly, Nureyev, Wall.

8/3/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Swan Lake - Sibley, Nureyev, Jenner, Penney, Coleman, Mead.

8/4/71- London - Royal Opera House - Raymonda Act III, Seymour, Nureyev.

8/6/71 - London - Royal Opera House - Raymonda Act III, Beriosova, Nureyev.

9/2 -18/71 - Italy - Teatro Alla Scala - Lo Schiaccianoci - Rudolf Nureye Choreographer.

11/1/71 - London - Coliseum - Shooting "Sleeping Beauty"

11/7/71 - Marseilles - RN production of "Don Quixote"

11/20/71 - London - Royal: premiere of Field Figures

1971-1972 - France - Film: I Am A Dancer

1/72 - Marseille - Marseilles Ballet: restaged Don Quixote

1972 - Zurich - Zurich Ballet: restaged Raymonda

1972 - Toronto - National Ballet: Staged Sleeping Beauty

2/10/72 to 3/18/72 - London - Covent Garden - Romeo & Juliet, (Fonteyn), Field Figures (Bergsma, Mason), Afternoon of A Faun (Sibley, Penney), Giselle (Park), Apollo (Parkinson), Sleeping Beauty (Fonteyn).

4/24 - 6/3/72 - New York - Royal: Bayadere, Side Show pas, R & J, Giselle

6/27 - 7/2/72 - Mexico - Paul Taylor tour: Apollo, Book of Beasts, Aureole

Summer 1972 - Mexico - Performance of Balanchine's Apollo with Boston Ballet principals Anamarie Sarazin, Edra Toth, and Jerilyn Dana - part of a tour with Paul Taylor's company.

9/72 to 8/73 - London - RN Repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, R & J, Beauty, Swan Lake, Afternoon of a Faun, Apollo, Bayadere, Corsaire, Prodigal Son, Side Show

9/19 - 26/72 - Philadelphia - National Ballet: Sleeping Beauty

10/22 - 24/72 - Toronto - National Ballet: Sleeping Beauty taped for TV

11/4 - 11/72 - Sidney - Australian Ballet: Don Quixote filmed.

1/25/73 - London - Royal: debut in Prodigal Son

1/73 - Sidney - Don Quixote film premiere

2/73 - LA - National Ballet start of U.S. tour: Beauty and Swan Lake

4/4 - 5/73 - Gary, Indiana - National Ballet: Beauty and Swan Lake. Note: Gary residents collected money to finance National Ballet's visit.

4/19 - 21/73 - Wisconsin - RN and dancers from Boston and Philadelphia: Les Sylphides (Seymour), Apollo, Moor's Pavane, Milwaukee with Edra Toth, Anamarie Sarazin and Jerilyn Dana.

4/25 - 5/13/73 - New York - National Ballet "La Sylphide" and "The Moor's Pavane" at the Metropolitan Opera House.

5/7/73 - New York - Dance Magazine Award presented by Bruhn

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