The Real Nureyev: An Intimate Memoir of Ballet's Greatest Hero

by Carolyn Soutar

The Real Nureyev is an intensely personal, under-the-skin depiction of ballet's greatest hero. Written by Carolyn Soutar, who worked with Nureyev at the London Coliseum during the 1980s, this biography focuses a six-year period of his life when his career was drawing to a close and this once phenomenal dancer began to call himself "Old Galoshes," in recognition of his fading powers. From his close friends we learn of the changes in from a young man eager to learn, searching for perfection in a body he believed to be flawed, to the knowledgeable and difficult superstar that he would become.

Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, yet always deeply human, The Real Nureyev is an intimate insider's story of what the ballet icon was really about.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Carolyn Soutar has worked in many sectors of the entertainment industry. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and then joined the English National Opera as a stage manager.
She was the tour manager for Dave Allen in the 1980s.
Carolyn also lectures at various schools in London on staging events. She lives in Suffolk, England.
Her last book was a biography of Nureyev.

Reviews

[Hava Kuks · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[glyndiana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn Carolyn, you really gonna make me pull out my ballet VHS?