I, Maya Plisetskaya /

Maya Plisetskaya rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy. Here Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey presenting the life of a Soviet artist from the 1930s to 1990s.

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Tác giả chính: Pliset͡skai͡a, Maĭi͡a, 1925-2015
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Được phát hành: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, ©2001.
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Mục lục:
  • The dacha and Sretenka Street
  • What I was like at five
  • Relatives
  • Spitzbergen
  • I study ballet
  • Back in school and father's arrest
  • My mother disappears
  • Chimkent
  • Concert for the Cheka
  • Tchaikovsky's ʼImpromptuʼ
  • The war
  • My first year at the Bolshoi Theater
  • The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage
  • Mastering the ABCs of the theater
  • ʼRaymondaʼ
  • ʼSwan Lakeʼ
  • Youth festivals
  • My injuries, my healers
  • Who'll get whom!
  • Stalin's birthday
  • I dance in ʼDon Quixoteʼ
  • I dance in Golovanov's opera
  • Life on the road and the end of the Stalinist era
  • My trip to India
  • Persecution
  • How I didn't go to London
  • While the company was in London
  • How I dressed
  • What a person needs
  • Shchedrin
  • Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect
  • I go to America
  • Seventy-three days
  • How we were paid
  • Paris meetings
  • Work with Yakobson
  • Why I did not stay in the West
  • Marc Chagall draws me
  • November 20
  • How ʼCarmen Suiteʼ was born
  • Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Bjart
  • A lyrical digression
  • My ballets
  • My ballets (continued)
  • I want justice
  • Work in Italy
  • Work in Spain
  • Untitled
  • Years of wandering
  • Curfew.