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

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

7/3 - 30/79 - New York - National Ballet: Beauty, Giselle, Coppelia (Bruhn did 2 performances) Jeoffrey: Diaghilev program.

Eric Bruhn and Rudolf Nureyev

10/79 - Washington - Vienna State Opera: Don Quixote, Swan Lake

11/4/79 - West Berlin - Berlin: RN's Nutcracker; RN fractured foot.

11/5/79 - London - TV: Fonteyn's Magic of Dance series begins.  RN - Corsaire, Beauty Act III (Seymour), Pierrot, M & A (clips of Giselle with Fonteyn).

11/20/79 thru 12/6/79 - Paris - Paris Opera Ballet, Palais de Sport; premiere of Manfred - RN injured, Guizerix danced; (RN premiered on 12/15); La Sylphide, Apollo, Aureole, Gentilhomme.

1/80 - London - Publication of Bland's "Fonteyn & Nureyev".  "Magic of Dance" series, British TV.

1/80 thru 2/80 - Milan, Florence, Washington, Rome - Tour, La Scala: Nutcracker, Giselle; Miss Julie, Wayfarer. In Rome (2/6, 2/8, 2/9) for first time in 14 years, SRO for Giselle with Fracci.

3/2/80 - West Berlin - Berlin Opera Ballet: Panov's "The Idiot"

3/12 - 27/80 - Vienna - Vienna State Opera: Swan Lake with Gregory; Pierrot, Wayfarer

4/80 - Paris/New York - Met cancels Paris Opera Ballet visit to New York and Washington because of dancers' threat to strike.

4/80 - London - Festival Ballet: Sleeping Beauty

4/80 - Paris - Paris Opera Ballet: RN dances in Bourmeister production of Swan Lake.

4/80 - Italy - Rome Opera Ballet: Swan Lake - Soviet Embassy's protest forced cancellation of RN's performances in Yuri Grigorovich's production.  Rome Opera replaced some Swans with Giselle for RN and Fracci - some dancers struck, but performance continued.

4/80 - San Remo - Wayfarer, Pierrot, Aureole, Corsaire (Radius)

4/80 - New York - In Ballet News, Clive Barnes expresses hope that RN will become director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company.

4/13/80 - New York - RN to choreograph and dance in "Parade" at Met.

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