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 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 ...

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 ...

IN "Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer," an exhibition of Wyeth's portraits of the late Rudolf Nureyev now on view at the Kennedy Center, there is a 1977 photograph of the artist leaning ...

Here & Now's Robin Young talks with co-directors Jacqui and David Morris about their film, and why they want a new generation to "rediscover"... New Documentary 'Nureyev' Follows Dancer's Leap From ...

Serebrennikov, a leading figure in Russia’s contemporary theatre and a vocal critic of censorship, had been implicitly slapped down by the Bolshoi Theatre when his ballet's premiere was cancelled in ...

This striking and moving documentary from BAFTA nominated directors Jacqui and David Morris traces the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev. From his birth in the 5th class carriage of a ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Bolshoi Theatre ballet about the life of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev set to premiere on Saturday contains tender scenes of gay romance, testing the Kremlin's tolerance for what ...