Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev following their performance in the Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Metropolitan Opera in 1965 - Bettmann Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet was ...

As a dancer, Rudolf Nureyev was certainly a phenomenon. Born in 1938, he grew up in the central Asian Soviet republic of Bashkiria. He started intensive ballet training in Leningrad at the late age of ...

Even before he died almost 20 years ago of complications from AIDS, Rudolf Nureyev had entered the realm of legend. As a dancer, choreographer, fine arts collector, political refugee and social animal ...

In the mid-60s, when the famed Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev received permission to stage his version of the third act of Marius Petipa's "Raymonda" for The Royal Ballet's touring troupe, Margaret ...

A photograph of Rudolf Nureyev hangs backstage at the Royal Opera House in London, an acknowledgment of the time the Russian dancer spent with the Royal Ballet between the early 1960s and late 1970s.

Dance and politics become intertwined in David Hare’s screenplay for “The White Crow,” a movie about Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev’s decision to defect to the West in 1961. “The White Crow,” ...

Oleg Ivenko is a nimble dancer but, unfortunately, a very stiff actor. The degree of difficulty is high for Ivenko's performance as ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev in "The White Crow." The native of ...

He befriended Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 while the Kirov Ballet was in Paris and witnessed his headline-making defection at the height of the Cold War. By Neil Genzlinger She danced with Nureyev and ...

A Nureyev Ballet, With a Hint of Ambivalence, Takes Its Time “The Sleeping Beauty” being performed by the Paris Opera Ballet is notable for its length and what Rudolf Nureyev may have been trying to ...

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Tatar dancer from the former Soviet Union, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's ...