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

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

4/63 to 3/64 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, Swan Lake, Bayadere, M & A, Symphonic Variations, Corsaire, Petrushka, Les Sylphides.  RN provided additional choreography for new Swan Lake; revised and produced Bayadere. 

4/1/63 - London - Royal: Symphonic Variations (Fonteyn).

4/17/63 to 7/7/63 - USA - Royal tour: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, LA.  RN's rep: Giselle, Swan Lake, M & A, Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird), Corsaire, Flower Festival.

5/20/63 -  Washington, DC   -  Tea at the White House.
Washington Ballet Guild, Inc. Presents American Ballet Theater, Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, Directors, Guest Artist, Rudolf Nureyev

6/2/63 - New York - TV: Gayene and Sleeping Beauty ACT III variation.

6/5/63 - Toronto - RN arrested for dancing in street.

7/10/63 - Brooklyn - TV studio: marathon taping of Black Swan and Diana and Acteon (Beriosova).

7/63 to 8/63 - World Tour - Fonteyn-Nureyev concert group: Cannes, Greece, Israel, Japan, Hawaii.

7/63 - Monte Carlo - Purchased villa at La Turbie. *

8/63 - Edinburgh - Film: An Evening with the Royal Ballet shown at Edinburgh Festival.

10/5/63 - London - Covent Garden.

10/24/63 - London - Royal: debut in Petrusha (Nerina)

11/4/63 - Paris - Int'l Ballet Festival, Royal Touring Co.: Swan Lake (Fonteyn).  RN given golden star as best male dancer.

11/17/63 - London - ATV: Diana and Acteon (Beriosova).

11/19/63 - London - TV:  BBC: Gayane pas and Swan Lake Adagio (Fonteyn).

11/27/63 - London - Royal: premiere of Kingdom of the Shades scene from La Bayadere (Fonteyn), revised and produced by RN.

12/5/63- London - RAD gala: La Sylphide pas (Fonteyn), Diana and Acteon (Beriosova), solo by MacMillan to Bach's Fantasia in C Minor.

12/8/63 - London - Motor scooter injury forces cancellation of new Swan Lake debut.

1/64 - San Francisco - San Francisco Ballet: Gayane, Corsaire, Black Swan, Sylphide (Fonteyn). 

Rudolph Nureyev, the famous Russian ballet dancer who defected to the West from the Soviet Union in 1961, was the subject of an FBI Espionage investigation in 1964 following the discovery of a cryptic note behind a wall plaque in a California hotel.  Freedom of Information Act - 160 Pages

2/9/64 - London - ATV: Laurentia Act II pas (Nerina)

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