Word: bashkir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dancer's fans will be bowled over by the 29 color and 146 black-and-white pictures, most of them previously unpublished, that illustrate this big, handsome book. Dance Critic Clive Barnes' chronicle charts the dancer's career back to its beginnings in the remote Bashkir Republic of the U.S.S.R., where, as a teenager, Rudi jumped and twirled in local folk dances. Battling the disapproval of his Tatar father, a Communist commissar, the youth made his way into Leningrad's celebrated Kirov company. Following his defection in Paris in 1961, he danced non-stop in virtually...