Nureyev's dancing ability and good looks gave him star quality The Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev would have been 80 this year, which also marks the 25th anniversary of his death. Yet, with a new ...

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 ...

I remember watching Rudolf Nureyev perform part of the ballet Giselle on television. It must have been The Ed Sullivan Show or The Bell Telephone Hour. He was too big a superstar to dance in any ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Rudolf Nureyev brought celebrity to dance with his animalistic energy onstage, volatile attitude offstage and his exquisite partnering with prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn. His life as ...

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 phenomenon Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961, it was headline news around the world. Not only because his jaw-dropping muscular grace on stage had already made him ...

There is a book about ballet, published in 1860, that shows a man and woman dancing a pas de deux. The caption reads, “The disagreeable thing about ballerinas is that they sometimes bring along a male ...

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 magnificent Rudolf Nureyev was the first male superstar of modern ballet, a complex, absorbing figure whose life involved early gay politics and the Cold War. He was a dynamo who graced “The Ed ...

Search the internet for still pictures of ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev dancing "Le Corsaire." Then compare your findings to screenshots from the first 30 seconds of Nathan Chen skating his short ...