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 ...

Eva Evdokimova was a world-renowned ballerina and favorite partner of the legendary Rudolf Nureyev during the latter stages of his career. When the 60-year-old succumbed to cancer in 2009, her husband ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Talented and mercurial in equal measure, the dancer Rudolf Nureyev redefined what ballet could be. “The White Crow,” a new biopic from director Ralph Fiennes, focuses on the most important decision in ...

As good as Julie Kavanagh’s new biography of Rudolf Nureyev is, nothing in it seems to explain the legendary dancer quite as well as a brief film clip at the beginning of the new PBS documentary ...

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, ...

Brilliance and controversy were paired like identical twins in Rudolf Nureyev, the late ballet star, from the time he was a boy. Shortly after arriving at the Kirov Ballet school, he incurred the ...

As mourners passed the grave of Rudolf Nureyev, one of the 20th century’s most influential dancers, they left parting gifts: white roses and worn ballet slippers. The burial took place at a Russian ...

We are still in the beginning phases of a reckoning with toxic masculinity that may take years to dismantle, and yet there is a persistent desire to move past it and to attempt to understand the ...