The escape of art

Sandra 2022-01-24 08:05:36

On June 15, the Shanghai Film Festival opened. The opening film "Yabai" has not been released so far due to "technical reasons".

The biggest highlight of the film festival is the extra screening of "White Crow"

The rare white crow to describe the rebellious ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev (1938~1993) is really appropriate.

At that time, male dancers in ballet were merely foils. The appearance of Ryriev makes male dancers and female dancers evenly divided

And his 17-year collaboration with the Queen of Ballet, Margot Fontaine, has achieved an unparalleled partner record.

However, such a dancer almost faced the fate of imprisonment and exile

March 17, 1938 "Reryev was born on a train, and he also spent his entire life at a speed of 100 miles per hour."

In 1958, at the age of 20, Nureyev joined the Kirov Dance Theatre

In May 1961, the Kirov troupe, where Nuriev belonged, made its first tour of Europe. He sneaked out many times and walked through the streets of Paris.

For this he received a warning

On June 16, 1961, the superiors at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, France, decided to send Ryriev back home.

With the help of friends, Relyev asked for political asylum.

The Soviet court tried in absentia and sentenced Ryriev to 7 years of exile for treason. In 1987, Relyev was allowed to bid farewell to his mother when he was dying, but he "returned immediately after visiting and was not allowed to stay."

In January 1993, Relyev died in Paris.

Duchamp did not draw the background and input the white crow to obtain resources.

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Extended Reading

The White Crow quotes

  • Rudolf Nureyev: I can live anywhere. Remember, I was born on a train. I feel I will never return to my country. But I may never be happy in yours.

  • [First Lines - dialogue entirely in Russian with English subtitles]

    Interrogator: You knew.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No.

    Interrogator: You knew what he was planning to do.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No.

    Interrogator: You're saying he never spoke of defection?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: The subject never came up.

    Interrogator: He never spoke of it?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: Never.

    Interrogator: This is an attack on the Soviet Union.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No, It's about dance.

    Interrogator: Dance?

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: He knows nothing about politics. He's gone to the West because there he can dance.

    Interrogator: He could dance here.

    Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: Yes, but... I think it's likely he had an explosion of character. That's who he is.