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 ...

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 ...

From the moment the seven-year-old Rudolf Nureyev saw a ballet on stage in his local theatre, he lived and breathed dance. That overwhelming desire to be on stage carried him throughout his life – ...

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.

The doors of the blue bus hissed open and 120 members of the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet filed into the waiting room at Paris’ Le Bourget Airport. Once they were inside, one of the troupe’s two “bodyguards ...

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 ...

In the 1970s when legendary dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, and famed scion of the Wyeth dynasty, Jamie Wyeth, came together to engage in a series of portrait sittings that would extend over the next two ...

in NYC For Limited Time Only, April 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, and 27 – Encores on August 9, 10, and 15 Romeo and Juliet forbidden love set under the stars of Italy, Verona, in 14th century. Shakespeare ...

RUDOLF NUREYEV, THE ballet star who was legendary even before he died of AIDS in Paris two years ago at the age of 54, so valued his old dance slippers that he never gave any away, wore them until ...

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 ...