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I, Maya Plisetskaya
I, MAYA PLISETSKAYA by Maya Plisetskaya, Yale University Press, 2001.
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Remarkably, at age sixty-one, Maya Plisetskaya danced the dying swan passage of the famous Swan Lake ballet in a Tokyo performance. In this equally remarkable book, she tells the reader that a journalist tried to ghostwrite her memoir, but she found his writing “wordy and pompous…filled with false wisdom.” She says, “I wrote the book by myself. And therefore it took a long time.” So begins this memoir by the Bolshoi prima ballerina who was one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century.
Maya spares no one, including herself. She unflinchingly reveals the good and the bad: her thoughts on politics of the day, the jealousies and machinations of other dancers in the company, life with her famous composer husband. She shares the excitement of performing at New York’s Lincoln Center. And she mentions that President John F. Kennedy was an admirer who made private visits to her dressing room. Here she stops short of saying more, but in person she told ballerina friends — one of whom is my ballet teacher who lunched with her long ago. The answer is yes.
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