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14 unusual facts about Rudolf Nureyev


Beatriz Stix-Brunell

Stix-Brunell trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, when she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de l'Ecole de Danse, Serge Lifar's Entre deux Rondes and Rudolf Nureyev's La Bayadère with the Paris Opera Ballet.

Bobby Knoop

Nicknamed "Nureyev" by sportswriters for his exciting and acrobatic fielding plays, Knoop played a deep second base, with exceptional range and a strong arm.

Dino Pedriali

Photographed by Pedriali were people like Giacomo Manzù, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Moravia, Federico Fellini, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, whom he photogaphed shortly before Pasolini's 1975 death.

Giorgio Madia

From 1988 to 1991 Giorgio Madia was engaged by Rudolf Nureyev to join him on his world farewell tour Nureyev and Friends.

Jerry Berger

He was also a press agent and publicist with such personalities as Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson, Leonard Bernstein, Liza Minnelli, Arthur Rubinstein, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, Vincent Price, Charlton Heston, and Rudolf Nureyev, among others.

Jesse Ceci

He was also concertmaster of four major ballet companies—the Pennsylvania Ballet from Philadelphia, the New York City Center Ballet, the Harkness Ballet of New York and the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto where he did all of the solo work for Rudolf Nureyev.

Jesse Arthur Ceci (February 2, 1924 – May 10, 2006) was a violinist and former concertmaster, most notably of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO), the Minnesota Orchestra and the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto where he did all of the solo work for Rudolf Nureyev.

John Bridcut

Other documentaries by Bridcut include studies of Queen Elizabeth II, Rudolf Nureyev, Roald Dahl and Hillary Clinton.

John Heilpern

He began his career at The Observer of London, where his interviews with numerous cultural figures (including Graham Greene, Rudolf Nureyev, Henry Moore, Artur Rubinstein, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson) received a British Press Award.

Paris–Le Bourget Airport

On 16 June 1961, the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget Airport.

Robert Hitchcock

These include a series of sculptures of the Russian Ballet Dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Rosita Sokou

She was spurred to write a book by her chance encounter and subsequent decade-long friendship with Rudolf Nureyev.

Soviet dissidents

A few cultural figures managed to escape from the Soviet regime, such as Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Lyudmila Makarova, Mikhail Shemyakin, William Brui, and others.

Terese Capucilli

The following year, in the featured role of Young Clytemnestra she was partnered by Rudolf Nureyev at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.


Desert Dancer

Afshin Gaffarian who taught himself to dance using YouTube, despite such activities being forbidden in his country.The story follows Afshin as he hacks into YouTube (also banned in Iran) and teaches himself how to dance by watching music videos - everything from Michael Jackson and Bob Fosse to Pina Bausch, Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Mansur Kamaletdinov

A Bashkir, Kamaletdinov was born in Zlatoust, Russia and spent his early childhood in a village near Ufa, Bashkiria, which by coincidence is the same village where the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev grew up.

Staś Kmieć

Staś Kmieć has danced with the Boston Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet; toured and performed on Broadway with both Rudolf Nureyev in Don Quixote, and in Lee Theodore's American Dance Machine.

Vienna State Ballet

There were also revivals of The Sleeping Beauty in the version by Peter Wright; Anna Karenina by Boris Eifman; Don Quixote by Rudolf Nureyev; choreography by Balanchine, Robbins, Neumeier, Tharp, and Forsythe; a Nureyev Gala; and the repertoire pieces Le Concours by Maurice Béjart and Marie Antoinette by Patrick de Bana.

Zoë Dominic

Dominic's work as a theatre photographer began in the Royal Court Theatre around 1957, and she became known for photographing the postwar British theatre revival, including actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith and performers Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.