Twenty-three-year-old dancer Rudolf Nureyev was just becoming a household name in Russia when he became a Cold War sensation by defecting to the West. Movie critic Bob Mondello says that incident ...

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 ...

At 23, Nureyev fled his homeland of Russia to escape persecution for being gay. The first Russian dancer to seek freedom in the West, Nureyev suddenly found himself become an international icon.

Experience Rudolf Nureyev’s revolutionary 1964 production of "Swan Lake" with ballerina Margot Fonteyn through extensive excerpts and interviews with their fellow dancers Michael Birkmeyer, Gisela ...

No one was quite prepared for what they saw when Rudolf Nureyev was unleashed. It wasn’t just the iconic dancer’s athletic abandon, though that was impressive enough. He turned faster than anyone and ...

When the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev came to Paris to tour with the Kirov ballet company in 1961, he was “like a wild animal out of a cage,” says Oleg Ivenko, the 26-year-old Ukrainian dancer ...

This September, the world’s leading ballet stars will join together to celebrate the legacy of the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Widely regarded as the greatest ballet dancer ever, he transcended ...

Subject and style could not be more different than in “The White Crow,” but that fusion of opposites has resulted in an involving biographical drama that rarely puts a foot wrong. Speaking of feet, ...

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 ...