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

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

3/3/64 - London - Royal: debut in Helpmann's Swan Lake (Fonteyn); RN arranged Polonaise and Mazurka.

4/64 to 3/65 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, R & J, Swan Lake, Bayadere, Hamlet, Images of Love, M & A, Polovtsian Dances, Les Sylphides, Corsaire, Laurentia (revised and produced by RN).

4/2/64 - London - Royal: debut in Hamlet (Seymour) and premiere of Images of Love (Seymour and Gable).

4/9/64 - London - TV - BBC: This is Your Life Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet.

4/18 to 5/16/64 - Sydney and Melbourne - Australian Ballet: Swan Lake and Giselle (Fonteyn) and Corsaire (Serrano)

6/8/64 - Panama - Roberto Arias shot.  About Roberto Arias

6/9/64 - Bath - Western Theatre Ballet: premiere of Divertimento pas by MacMillan (Fonteyn, Yehudi Menuhin) and La Sylphide (Fonteyn)

6/9 through 7/3/64 - London - Royal at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: Sleeping Beauty (Page), Giselle, Bayadere, M & A

6/64 - Stuttgart - Stuttgart State Ballet: Cranko's Swan Lake, La Sylphide, Corsaire (Fonteyn)

7/64 - Spoleto - Royal Ballet Touring Co., premiere of Raymonda (Wells and Fonteyn)

7/22 to 7/26/64 - Lebanon - Royal Ballet Touring Co.Int'l Festival of Baalbeck: Hamlet (Fonteyn)

10/15/64 - Vienna - Vienna State Opera: premiere of Swan Lake staged by RN (Fonteyn)

11/17/64 - London - RAD gala: RN production of Paquita (Fonteyn)

12/27/64 - USA -  TV - CBS: Royal Ballet, Les Sylphide (Seymour)

1/65 - Toronto - RN in Toronto as 'spectator' at National Ballet

1/5/65 - Toronto - National Ballet: debut in La Sylphide (Seymour), replacing 'injured' Eric Bruhn

1/28/65 - Washington - Johnson Inaugural: Le Corsaire (Fonteyn)

2/9/65 - London - Royal: premiere, Romeo & Juliet (Fonteyn)

3/18/65 - London - TV-BBC: Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene (Fonteyn)

3/24/65 - London - Royal Gala: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor (Mason and Parkinson), Laurentia

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