Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev following their performance in the Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Rudolf Nureyev brought celebrity to dance with his animalistic energy onstage, volatile attitude offstage and his exquisite partnering with prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn. His life as ...

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, ...