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 ...

It would be absurd to say that Rudolf Nureyev lived, or danced, in anyone’s shadow. He was a man who leapt and twirled and flew onstage, all muscle but light as a feather, with a freedom and force ...

The magnificent Rudolf Nureyev was the first male superstar of modern ballet, a complex, absorbing figure whose life involved early gay politics and the Cold War. He was a dynamo who graced “The Ed ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The passing of Rudolf Nureyev may mean little to most Americans, but to those of us who are dance fanatics it is the passing of an era. Nureyev was one of the first dancers to defect from Russia and ...

Jacqui and David Morris' documentary 'Nureyev,' about the legendary dancer, includes much never-before-seen footage. By Frank Scheck There has been no shortage of documentaries about Rudolf Nureyev, ...