... both envious colleagues and Party officials. Refused permission for six years to tour with the company, Plisetskaya eventually performed all over the world, working with such noted choreographers as Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart. She recounts the tumultuous events she lived through...

...In this chapter, Maya Plisetskaya recalls her experience working with Western choreographers Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart. After Maya received the Legion of Honor from François Mitterand, the president of France, she met Petit at the Repetto store owned by his mother. Petit asked her to work...

... Calzadadilla Lupe Feijóo Lorena Feijóo Lorna Acosta Carlos De Sáa Ramona Chery Morejón Grettel Rudolf Nureyev Maurice Béjart Jorge Lefebre Violeta Casals Che Guevara Alberto Alonso Fidel Castro Vaganova Institute Nicolas Guillen Menia Martínez studied ballet in Cuba and the Soviet Union...

... repetitions matter as a rhetorical and contemporary phenomenon. The chapter examines works by Maurice Béjart, Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris, and Christopher Wheeldon to investigate the rhetoric in The Nutcracker’s reworkings. This way of reading The Nutcracker suggests...