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Shvoong Home>Lifestyle>Hobbies>Dmitri Nabokov: Rudi Van Dantzig: Obituaries: Review

Dmitri Nabokov: Rudi Van Dantzig: Obituaries:

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The passing away of two artists has been noted in the Guardian Tuesday and the
Obituaries are presented with photographics in black and white:

Rudi van Dantzig: Choreographer who played a key role in the development of Ballet in the Netherlands;
is pictured centre page as: Van Dantzig, right, created contemporary ballets with a strong social them: Photograph: Associated Newspapers ...Rex.

Rudi van Dantzig died aged 78 of cancer, and he played a major role in the development of classical balet and also had a second career which developed later in his life as a novelist and biographer: Many of his ballets had a strong thread of social criticism. - ballet brought him international notice - however because of his late start he would never make a first rate dancer. But he received the order of Orange Nassau and he is survived by Toer:
born 4 August 1933 died: 19 January 2012:

Beside this is the obituary of Dmitri Nabokov: : Translater and editor dedicated to hsi father's literary legacy.
A picture is published of him with his father and is described as "dazzlingly fearless". Dmitri Nabokov died aged
77 and was the only child of the writer Vladimir Nabokov and became his translater and editor and keeper of the flame of his father's reputation. When Dmitri was born in Berlin his parents, Vladimir and Vera were poor Russian emigres ad he ws their only luxury. - fed the juice of a a dozen fresh oranges a day! They fled Germany for France and escaped to the US settled in Wellesley Massachusetts: Dmitri as the indulged son of two doting parents found it hard to adjust to numerous schools but eventually achieved distinction. Dmitri traveled to Europe in 1959 where his Italian publisher helped him find a singing coach at La Scala and a year later he won a competiton that entitled him to an opera debut: Journalists came to hear the son of Lolita's author and ended up writing about the tenor also making his debut - Luciano Pavarotti. Suffering from diabetes and polymyalgic neuropathy he used a wheelchair most of his last decade.

He once told reporters that he had "come close to marriage several times but escaped: My life has been too complicated to inflict mself on others" Born 1O April 1937 died 22 February 2O12:
Published: February 28, 2012   
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