Rudolf Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh

Author:Julie Kavanagh
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141912134
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

Margot was rather formal and offhand with Wallace at first, probably, as he says, because she assumed this was just another passing fling. ‘Why get involved with someone who might be gone tomorrow?’ She liked him enough, though, to take him to the zoo when Rudolf was rehearsing – ‘I was wearing cut-off denims, a tank top and was actually barefoot, but she didn’t bat an eye.’ She also showed an interest in his subject. ‘I remember we talked about the latest cosmological theories of the universe. She didn’t know physics in depth, but she could hold a conversation.’ Wallace had been equally impressed by Rudolf’s awareness of things outside ballet, although he admits that, at this point, sex more than anything else was the bond between them. ‘I was very … as they say in England “randy” – a word Rudolf also loved.’ Wallace remained on the tour as far as San Francisco, by which time he had had enough: ‘It was just that Rudolf was so difficult – screaming at the waiters when they brought him overcooked eggs.’ The moment of decision came when Robert Hutchinson, ‘innocently trying to impress Rudolf with pleasure, and not knowing his friend’s capacity to perform’, arranged a foursome in their hotel room:

I don’t know what Rudolf was trying to tell me at that point, whether he wanted an open relationship, or didn’t want to be committed to me, but I was very uncomfortable with the idea of having sex with more than one person. I remember sitting in the window of the St Francis Hotel kind of sulking while three of them performed on the bed. And I couldn’t do it.

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