MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Bolshoi Theatre ballet about the life of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev set to premiere on Saturday contains tender scenes of gay romance, testing the Kremlin's tolerance for what ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A ballet about Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev which tested the Kremlin's tolerance with its evocation of gay romance picked up the major prizes on Tuesday at one of the ballet ...

ROME (Reuters) -A luxury resort formerly owned by Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev on a private archipelago off southern Italy's Amalfi Coast has been seized by police for suspected building code ...

Russia’s famed Bolshoi Theater has pulled a ballet about the late dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev due to legislation outlawing the sharing of positive messages about LGBTQ issues. The ballet, ...

Sylvie Guillem, dancer who walked out of Paris Opera Ballet 10 years ago in dispute with Rudolf Nureyev, dances six performances with the company in Paris to tumultuous applause; many attending her ...

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 ...

Despite his HIV-positive diagnosis in the early 1980s, Russian-born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev continued to dance and work as the director of the Paris Opera, as chronicled in this documentary that ...

At 23, Nureyev fled his homeland of Russia to escape persecution for being gay. The first Russian dancer to seek freedom in the West, Nureyev suddenly found himself become an international icon.

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 ...