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, ...

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Tatar dancer from the former Soviet Union, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Adèle Exarchopoulos and dancers Oleg Ivenko and Sergei Polunin will star in The White Crow; HanWay to handle world sales. After an extensive search the production has settled on Russian ...

He was hailed as “the greatest dancer of the century” or – with a modicum of restraint – “the greatest dancer in Russia”. Such fatuities, and a clutch of garrulously awful biographies, have served as ...

Celebrated Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev became the best known male dancer in the world after defecting to the West in 1961, aged 23. He first appeared on a UK stage on 2nd November 1961 at the ...

As ballet’s brightest and most contentious star gets the biography treatment from a former stage manger, Barbara Eifler takes off the rose-tinted spectacles to delve beneath the cover Why should a ...

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 ...