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 ...

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 ...

Eva Evdokimova was a world-renowned ballerina and favorite partner of the legendary Rudolf Nureyev during the latter stages of his career. When the 60-year-old succumbed to cancer in 2009, her husband ...

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.

In 1961, Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union, escaping from Russian security thugs at the Paris-Le Bourget airport. “The White Crow” is the story of the defection -- and the first 23 years ...

Ralph Fiennes steps behind the camera for a ballet biopic — not Black Swan, but The White Crow — about the early years and defection to the west of Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - People walk past the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, April 8, 2016. Russia’s Bolshoi Theater has removed a ballet ...

Multi-award choreographer Chiara Ajkun’s rendition of Tchaikovsky’s ballet performed by the dancers of the Ajkun Ballet Theatre. Enjoy complimentary photos and a post-performance chat with the artists ...

As a dancer, Rudolf Nureyev was certainly a phenomenon. Born in 1938, he grew up in the central Asian Soviet republic of Bashkiria. He started intensive ballet training in Leningrad at the late age of ...

FILE - People walk past the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, April 8, 2016. Russias Bolshoi Theater has removed a ballet dedicated to dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, citing a new Russian ...