The life and ballets of Lev Ivanov : choreographer of The nutcracker and Swan lake / by Wiley, Roland John

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; I: THE LIFE OF LEV IVANOVICH IVANOV; 1 Ivanov's Memoirs; 2 Lev Ivanov's Life; II: THE BALLETS OF LEV IVANOV; 3 Ivanov's First Ballets; 4 The Tulip of Haarlem; 5 Krasnoe Selo; 6 Operatic Interludes; 7 The Nutcracker; 8 Between The Nutcracker and Swan Lake; 9 Swan Lake; 10 Ivanov's Last Ballets; Conclusion; Appendices; A: Works in which Lev Ivanov Danced; B: The Compositions of Lev Ivanov; C: The Libretti of Lev Ivanov's Ballets; D: Evgenia Pavlovna Sokolova's Notes on the Part of Lise in La Fille mal gardée; Select Bibliography; Index; A.…”
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Wrights and wrongs. by Wright, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Miyako Yoshida; Prologue -- an appreciation; 1 Finding a footing; 2 Ninette de Valois -- calling her Madam; 3 Television -- acquiring a director's eye; 4 John Cranko -- Germany calling; 5 Kenneth MacMillan -- pushing the boundaries; 6 Getting on with it; 7 Being a director; 8 Birmingham -- forward; 9 Making a reputation -- Giselle; 10 Frederick Ashton -- awakening The Sleeping Beauty; 11 More classics, Coppélia, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake; 12 New ballets -- something borrowed, something blue.…”
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The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia / by Gessen, Masha

Table of Contents: “…Born in the USSR -- Born in 1984 -- Life, examined -- Privilege -- Homo sovieticus -- Part two. Revolution -- Swan Lake -- The execution of the White House -- Everyone wants to be a millionaire -- Part three. …”

For the love of dance : my autobiography / by Grey, Beryl, 1927-

Table of Contents: “….; Preface -- Adam Darius; Part One -- As a Dancer; Prologue -- Dame Beryl Grey, DBE; 1 How It All Started; 2 Early Blossoms, The Beginnings; 3 The Big Change; 4 Auditions; 5 London Living; 6 1939: War; 7 First Professional Performance, 1941; 8 Out On The Road, 1941; 9 Fate Steps In; 10 Swan Lake 1942; 11 Win Some, Lose Some, 1942; 12 New Ground; 13 1942, My First Christmas Away, And Onwards; 14 Nourishing Support -- 1943; 15 A Welcome Break -- And My Beaux; 16 1944, Giselle…”
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I, Maya Plisetskaya / by Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015

Table of Contents: “…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! …”
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