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 ...
The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow has dropped a ballet about Russian dance legend Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire after a law on so-called "gay propaganda" was tightened. Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin ...
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 ...