Nureyev recounts being put in a room at Orly and, as French rules demanded, left alone for five minutes to make a life-altering decision. The room has two doors.

Nureyev was the 23-year-old star of the Soviet Union’s Kirov Ballet in 1961 when he ran away from his KGB keepers at the Paris airport, begging for asylum. A few months later, ...

Rudolf Nureyev remains a mesmerizing figure in a documentary that captures, with never-before-seen footage, the ecstasy of his dance genius.

Rudolf Nureyev’s zealous mission to dance drove him on a frenzied 30-year tour of the world, changing how audiences saw ballet and how dancers performed it. The legendary Mr. Nureyev died yes… ...

Nureyev, who had been outmaneuvering his Soviet handlers throughout that 1961 Paris tour, knew Moscow meant punishment, imprisonment, perhaps even death.

Given Nureyev’s legacy in the dance world, Ivenko felt the need to do right by the legend he looked up to. “I didn’t want to let him down,” the actor said.

Along with Vaslav Nijinsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev was one of the three most famous male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Next year marks the 20th anniversary of his death.

In the 1970s when legendary dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, and famed scion of the Wyeth dynasty, Jamie Wyeth, came together to engage in a series of portrait sittings that would extend over the next two ...

Russia has banned any 'demonstration of non-traditional relations' and the ballet touches on the homosexuality of Rudolph Nureyev, one of the world's greatest dancers.