Teatro Sociale di Como in Italy is the cultural cradle of the city, and it hosts the great dance in the exceptional show titled “Omaggio a Rudolf Nureyev.” It is a tribute to Rudolf Nureyev staged by ...

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 U.S. premiere of “Rudolf Nureyev-Dance to Freedom,” which cleverly recreates how the world’s most famous dancer defected from the Soviet Union in Paris at the height of the Cold War, screens on ...

The loss was and remains immense. He has been gone now for a decade, and dance lovers everywhere ask: Will there ever be anyone like Rudolf Nureyev? He left us on the Feast of the Epiphany, Jan. 6, ...

Russia, political asylum, illicit seductions — “The White Crow” feels surprisingly current, though this new film about Soviet ballet star Rudolf Nureyev and his defection to the West centers on events ...

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, ...

Oleg Ivenko is a nimble dancer but, unfortunately, a very stiff actor. The degree of difficulty is high for Ivenko's performance as ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev in "The White Crow." The native of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rudolf Nureyev Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer Who Aided a Defection, Dies at 91 He befriended Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 while the Kirov Ballet was in Paris and witnessed his headline-making defection at ...