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, ...

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 ...

“You live as long as you dance” was a mantra Rudolf Nureyev practiced throughout his celebrated career. January is the 20th anniversary of the great Russian dancer’s death at age 54, and the De Young ...

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 ...

A Nureyev Ballet, With a Hint of Ambivalence, Takes Its Time “The Sleeping Beauty” being performed by the Paris Opera Ballet is notable for its length and what Rudolf Nureyev may have been trying to ...