Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "When I was a young dancer with the Royal Ballet and London Festival Ballet, ...

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 ...

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 great Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev does not come across as particularly likable in "The White Crow ," Ralph Fiennes' elegant biopic of his early years. Nureyev is arrogant, cruel, entitled, ...

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MOSCOWMOSCOW — Russia’s Bolshoi Theater has removed a ballet dedicated to dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, citing a new Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting ...

He was first in every sense: the first Soviet performer to refuse to return from an international tour; the first to become a superstar in the West; the first to come out as homosexual; and the first ...

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 ...

FILE - People walk past the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, April 8, 2016. Russias Bolshoi Theater has removed a ballet dedicated to dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, citing a new Russian ...