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 ...

On Wednesday Jan. 6, 1993, the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev died in Paris. The initial, official cause of death was said to be a "cardiac complication" that followed a long illness. But it wasn't hard ...

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 ...

Freddie Mercury would have turned 69 on Saturday — but the legendary Queen frontman died of complications from AIDS in 1991. This famous actor is best known for his role as the creepy killer Norman ...

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 ...

A sure sign of genius is making the difficult look easy. That’s a feat that “The White Crow,” a film about Rudolf Nureyev’s early life, never quite manages. It’s a good movie, so smartly directed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the mid-60s, when the famed Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev received permission to stage his version of the third act of Marius Petipa's "Raymonda" for The Royal Ballet's touring troupe, Margaret ...

Rudolf Nureyev dances onstage in "Faun" in 1978. (Jorge Fatauros/AP) Ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, is the subject of two new films out this month. One is a ...