- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Chapter One The Dacha and Sretenka Street -
Chapter Two What I was Like at Five -
Chapter Three Relatives -
Chapter Four Spitzbergen -
Chapter Five I Study Ballet -
Chapter Six Back in School and Father's Arrest -
Chapter Seven My Mother Disappears -
Chapter Eight Chimkent -
Chapter Nine Concert for the Cheka -
Chapter Ten Tchaikovsky's Impromptu -
Chapter Eleven The War -
Chapter Twelve My First Year at the Bolshoi Theater -
Chapter Thirteen The Apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage -
Chapter Fourteen Mastering the ABCs of the Theater -
Chapter Fifteen Raymonda -
Chapter Sixteen Swan Lake -
Chapter Seventeen Youth Festivals -
Chapter Eighteen My Injuries, My Healers -
Chapter Nineteen Who'll Get Whom! -
Chapter Twenty Stalin's Birthday -
Chapter Twenty-One I Dance in Don Quixote, I Dance in Golovanov's Opera -
Chapter Twenty-Two Life on the Road and the End of the Stalinist Era -
Chapter Twenty-Three My Trip to India -
Chapter Twenty-Four Persecution -
Chapter Twenty-Five How I Didn't Go to London -
Chapter Twenty-Six While the Company Was in London -
Chapter Twenty-Seven How I Dressed -
Chapter Twenty-Eight What a Person Needs -
Chapter Twenty-Nine Shchedrin -
Chapter Thirty Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect -
Chapter Thirty-One I Go to America -
Chapter Thirty-Two Seventy-three Days -
Chapter Thirty-Three How We Were Paid -
Chapter Thirty-Four Paris Meetings -
Chapter Thirty-Five Work with Yakobson -
Chapter Thirty-Six Why I Did Not Stay in the West -
Chapter Thirty-Seven Marc Chagall Draws Me -
Chapter Thirty-Eight November 20 -
Chapter Thirty-Nine How Carmen Suite was Born -
Chapter Forty Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart -
Chapter Forty-One A Lyrical Digression -
Chapter Forty-Two My Ballets -
Chapter Forty-Three My Ballets (Continued) -
Chapter Forty-Four I Want Justice -
Chapter Forty-Five Work in Italy -
Chapter Forty-Six Work in Spain -
Chapter Forty-Seven Untitled -
Chapter Forty-Eight Years of Wandering -
Chapter Forty-Nine Curfew
My First Year at the Bolshoi Theater
My First Year at the Bolshoi Theater
- Chapter:
- (p.58) Chapter Twelve My First Year at the Bolshoi Theater
- Source:
- I, Maya Plisetskaya
- Author(s):
Maya Plisetskaya
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
In this chapter, Maya Plisetskaya describes her life at the Bolshoi Theater, which had just returned from Kuibyshev (now renamed Samara, its original name) when she was taken into the ballet company. At the time, Marina Semyonova and Olga Lepeshinskaya reigned supreme on the stage while Viktorina Kriger, Lyubov Bank, Anastasia Abramova, and Lyubov Podgoretskaya were in the twilight of their dancing careers. The repertoire consisted of the usual titles known around the world, such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, and The Nutcracker. Maya was chosen as one of the eight nymphs in the Polish act of the opera Ivan Susanin. In order to stay in condition, she began performing at many concerts in Moscow. Maya also offers her impressions about the prima donnas of the Bolshoi Ballet during the period.
Keywords: ballet, Maya Plisetskaya, Bolshoi Theater, Ivan Susanin, concerts, Moscow, prima donnas, Bolshoi Ballet
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Chapter One The Dacha and Sretenka Street -
Chapter Two What I was Like at Five -
Chapter Three Relatives -
Chapter Four Spitzbergen -
Chapter Five I Study Ballet -
Chapter Six Back in School and Father's Arrest -
Chapter Seven My Mother Disappears -
Chapter Eight Chimkent -
Chapter Nine Concert for the Cheka -
Chapter Ten Tchaikovsky's Impromptu -
Chapter Eleven The War -
Chapter Twelve My First Year at the Bolshoi Theater -
Chapter Thirteen The Apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage -
Chapter Fourteen Mastering the ABCs of the Theater -
Chapter Fifteen Raymonda -
Chapter Sixteen Swan Lake -
Chapter Seventeen Youth Festivals -
Chapter Eighteen My Injuries, My Healers -
Chapter Nineteen Who'll Get Whom! -
Chapter Twenty Stalin's Birthday -
Chapter Twenty-One I Dance in Don Quixote, I Dance in Golovanov's Opera -
Chapter Twenty-Two Life on the Road and the End of the Stalinist Era -
Chapter Twenty-Three My Trip to India -
Chapter Twenty-Four Persecution -
Chapter Twenty-Five How I Didn't Go to London -
Chapter Twenty-Six While the Company Was in London -
Chapter Twenty-Seven How I Dressed -
Chapter Twenty-Eight What a Person Needs -
Chapter Twenty-Nine Shchedrin -
Chapter Thirty Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect -
Chapter Thirty-One I Go to America -
Chapter Thirty-Two Seventy-three Days -
Chapter Thirty-Three How We Were Paid -
Chapter Thirty-Four Paris Meetings -
Chapter Thirty-Five Work with Yakobson -
Chapter Thirty-Six Why I Did Not Stay in the West -
Chapter Thirty-Seven Marc Chagall Draws Me -
Chapter Thirty-Eight November 20 -
Chapter Thirty-Nine How Carmen Suite was Born -
Chapter Forty Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart -
Chapter Forty-One A Lyrical Digression -
Chapter Forty-Two My Ballets -
Chapter Forty-Three My Ballets (Continued) -
Chapter Forty-Four I Want Justice -
Chapter Forty-Five Work in Italy -
Chapter Forty-Six Work in Spain -
Chapter Forty-Seven Untitled -
Chapter Forty-Eight Years of Wandering -
Chapter Forty-Nine Curfew
