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

Rudolf Nureyev's
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7/14/- 28/73 - Paris - Paris Opera, outdoor performances at Louvre: Swan Lake (Pontois, Thesmar, Makarova - who quit due to cold or RN ...scandal)

8/73 - Israel - Royal Gala, 25th Anniversary Celebration

9/73 - 7/74 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: La Fille mal Gardee, Manon, Nutcracker, R & J, Beauty, Swan Lake, Afternoon of a Faun, Agon, Apollo, Bayadere, M & A, Prodigal Son.  Details: 10/30-31/73- Prodigal Son, Nureyev, Derman, Afternoon of a Faun, Penney, Nureyev.  11/3/73 - Prodigal Son - Nureyev, Bergsma. 11/5/73 - The Sleeping Beauty - Park, Nureyev, Thorogood, Wall, Peri, Sleep, A. Grant, Larsen, Edwards.  11/8/73 - The Sleeping Beauty- Park, Nureyev, Jenner, Coleman, Bergsma, Sleep, Emblen, May, Edwards.

10/9, 13 & 14/73? - Copenhagen - Letter dated 24th September 1973 from Flemming Flindt, Royal Theatre: Apollon Musagetes, La Sylphide, Aureole, The Moor's Pavane.

11/1/73 - New York - Film of Don Quixote - premiere benefit for Dance Collection

2/13/74 - 4/20/74 - Toronto, Ottawa, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia or Hartford - The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Swan Lake, Don Juan, Les Sylphides, Le Loup, The Moors Pavane, Aureole.

4/25/74 - New York - The National Ballet of Canada opened a season at the Metropolitan Opera House.  "Sleeping Beauty" (Celia Franca, Mary Jago, Winthrop Corey, Karen Kain, Rudolf Nureyev, guest artist).

5/?-16-26/74 - New York - Royal Ballet Company - Apollo, Swan Lake, Pavanne, La Bayadere, Symphonic Variations, La Fille Mal Gardee, Romeo & Juliet (Nureyev, Marguerite Porter, Anita Young, Georgina Parkinson, Merle Park,  David Drew, Laura Connor, Diana Vere, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Lesley Collier (Leslie Colier), Stanley Holden, Monica Mason, Brian Shaw, Ann Jenner, David Wall.)

5/29/74 - Kennedy Center Opera House - Royal Ballet Company "La Bayadere", RN restaged divertissment from the Petipa production of 1876, and "La Fille Mal Gardee" (Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell, Merle Park, Alexander Grant, Anita Young, Jennifer Penney, Monica Mason, Ronald Emblen)

10/14/74 - New York - Danced matinee and evening performance of Aureole with Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Alvin Theatre.  Previously had dance with Taylor company at Sadler's Wells in Mexico City.

10/74 - 8/75 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: La Fille mal gardee, Manon, Nutcracker, Beauty, Swan Lake, Agon, Bayadere, Dances at a Gathering, Raymonda Act III, Song of the Earth

11/74 - Paris - Tristan: Tetley

12/26/74 - 1/25/75 - New York - Nureyev and Friends, Uris Theatre: Apollo (Park, Lynda Yourth, Lisa Bradley, Mimi Paul), Flower Festival (Park), Aureole (Carolyn Adams, Nicholas Gunn, Eileen Cropley, Ruby Shang), Moor's Pavane (Park, Lisa Bradley, Louis Falco); presented by Hurok Concerts (Sheldon Gold, George Perper, Walter Prude); production supervised by John Taras, orchestra conducted by Jacques Beaudry.

1/75 - New York - Program bio: has appeared with more than 24 companies; mounted and partly choreographed 19 productions, as well as concert pieces; and appeared in five feature films.

3/4/75 - London - Royal Gala: Songs of a Wayfarer (Dowell), Don Juan pas (Fonteyn), choreographed/produced Le Corsaire pas de trois (Seymour, Derman, Mason).

6/19/75 - New York - Martha Graham Dance Co.: Lucifer - World Premiere (Fonteyn, Daniel Maloney).

Spring/Summer '75 - New York - ABT Gala: Corsaire pas (Kirkland), Ventana pas de trois (Gregory and Bruhn)

7/22 - 8/10/75 - New York - National Ballet of Canada: Coppelia (Bruhn), Beauty, Don Juan.

9/1 - 6/75 - Edinburgh - Royal Ballet Touring Co.: Apollo, The Dream, Raymonda Act III, R & J pas, Prodigal Son, Giselle (Seymour).

9/7 - 17/75 - Spain - Scottish Ballet: Moment (Murray Louis), Lesson, La Sylphide, Flower Festival, Sonate a trois.

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