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  Rudolf Nureyev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (Russian spelling Рудольф Хаметович Нуреев, Tatar form Rudolf Xämät ulı Nuriev) (17 March 1938 6 January 1993), Russian-born dancer, is regarded by many critics as one of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century, alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Nureyev was born in a train near Irkutsk, while his mother was travelling across Siberia to Vladivostok, where his father, a Red Army political commissar of Tatar descent, was stationed.
Nureyev was immediately in demand by film-makers, and in 1962 he made his screen debut in a film version of Les Sylphides.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Roberto-Rz)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer and choreographer.
Nureyev danced in such roles as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake and Armand in Marguerite and Armand, which was created especially for Fonteyn and Nureyev.
Nureyev was highly praised but his socializing with French friends incurred the displeasure of the Soviet officials, who told him he had to return.
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Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev was born on a train somewhere in Siberia, about 1900 miles from Vladivostock, on March 17, 1938.
Nureyev made his American debut in 1962, appearing to great acclaim on television and with Ruth Page's Chicago Opera Ballet.
Nureyev's sex life was as legendary--and frenetic--as his dancing.
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Nureyev, Rudolf Hametovich (1938-1993), Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer, perhaps the most virtuosic and charismatic male dancer of his...
Russia has an enormous cultural legacy, notably from the 19th century; its achievements in music, ballet, drama, literature, and film are...
In the 1960s the presence of Rudolf Nureyev revitalized Fonteyn and strengthened standards of male dancing.
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 Rudolph Nureyev Bio
According to Diane Solway’s 1998 biography "Nureyev: His Life," and based on new information from declassified KGB reports, Nureyev was flanked by KGB agents, and made an urgent appeal for help to a Paris friend, Pierre Lacotte.
Rudolf Nureyev was an accomplished musician, a fact which helps explain the perfection of his dancing, and his ambition to conduct all his own ballets.from the orchestra pit.
A real decline in Nureyev's health began in the summer of 1991, and in the spring of 1992 he entered into the final phase of his illness.
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 Nureyev, Rudolf Hametovich --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Known for his catlike leaps and rapid turns, Rudolf Nureyev was the most compelling dancer of his era.
The German-born physicist Rudolf Mössbauer was the corecipient of the Nobel prize for physics in 1961.
Austrian-born U.S. pianist Rudolf Serkin was a keyboard virtuoso renowned for his intensity, superb technique, and unsentimental interpretations, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
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 History Of Rudolf Nureyev on Almondnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation provides funds to dance organizations, dance schools, and dance companies in the USA to keep his spirit alive.
Rudolf Nureyev was one of the most written-about dancers in history...
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Overall, Nureyev had accomplished much in a considerably short period of time (“Rudolf Nureyev” Soviet born).
Nureyev starred in many movies dancing in classic ballets, but he also tried modern dances, to give a little challenge.
Rudolf had worked with more choreographers, who were not ballet choreographers, but ones who worked in the tougher, more difficult parts of modern dance, than any other premier danseur at all (Stuart 54).
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 DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Rudolf Nureyev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Born near Irkutsk, Nureyev danced professionally from the age of 15 and studied at the Leningrad Ballet School from 1955 until 1958, when he became soloist with the Kirov Ballet (now the St. Petersburg Ballet) in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
His first performances after his defection were with the Ballet of Marquis de Cuevas, in an overdressed production of Sleeping Beauty, but it was his appearances in London with the Royal Ballet, and particularly his first Giselle with Margot Fonteyn, that really established his reputation as a great dancer as well as a media star.
Nureyev became an Austrian citizen in 1982 and the next year he became the Artistic Director of the Paris Opera Ballet (having previously turned down the corresponding position with the Royal Ballet), and he revived many of his own productions for them.
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 Reinventing Nureyev from top to bottom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
But this fictionalised biography of Rudolf Nureyev is an extraordinary piece of work, and Colum McCann transcends the limitations of his medium with his intimate and thoughtful prose.
Nureyev's life is narrated by many different voices, each with its own perspective, and we have to figure out who they are from the available evidence.
Those who never saw Nureyev will be swept away, entranced, by the tactile presence of a master; those of us who did will stop reading, close our eyes and remember that perfect moment.
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Notorious SF: Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Nureyev is the Soviet ballet star who defected to the U.S. in 1961.
Rudolf Nureyev - ABT - Soviet-born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev was one of the most celebrated dancers of the 20th century and the first male superstar of the ballet world since Vaslav Nijinsky.
When American artist Jamie Wyeth met Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev in 1977, he was immediately captivated by the charismatic.
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 Nureyev, Rudolf Hametovich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Tallchief helped form the New York City Ballet with George Balanchine in 1948, and was a chief exponent of his choreographic style, as well as the company's prima ballerina for a number of years.
Here, a young Nureyev, who had defected to the west only four years before, is practising in the dance studio with her.
A soloist with the Kirov Ballet, he defected to the West during a visit to Paris in 1961.
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 Rudolf Nureyev --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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Organized in 1950 by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin with a corps de ballet drawn chiefly from the Cone-Ripman School in London and at Tring, Hertford, the troupe performs at locations throughout Great Britain and conducts world tours.
Although Georgiadis created designs for Rudolf Nureyev and many others, he was most closely associated with Sir Kenneth...
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Protagonista di importanti video di danza (I'm a Dancer, Nureyev), è stato un danzatore dal destino drammatico; ha passato gli ultimi anni della sua vita continuando a esibirsi, anche quando il livello tecnico e la debolezza fisica non gli permettevano più di raggiungere i livelli di un tempo.
L'arrivo di Rudolf Nureyev in veste di `ospite stabile' ha rappresentato una spinta in avanti per i ballerini del R.B., regalando una seconda giovinezza a Margot Fonteyn.
Nureyev ha realizzato per la compagnia l'`Atto delle ombre' da La bayadère e in seguito altri lavori; ha danzato in Marguerite and Armand con la Fonteyn e, sempre con lei, nel Romeo e Giulietta di MacMillan, nel frattempo trasferitosi dal Sadler's Wells al Covent Garden.
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 Music and Dance
Some of the greatest ballerinas of all time have come from Russia, and the Russian style (Vaganova) is one of the three most important schools of dance.
Nureyev, who studied ballet against his father’s wishes, escaped the KGB and defected to France in 1961.
Nureyev was born on trans-Siberian, near Irkoutsk in 1938.
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 NPG P531; Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev
Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev (1938-1993), Ballet dancer and choreographer.
Born in the former Soviet Union, Nureyev danced with Kirov Ballet until defection to the West in 1961.
A regular guest artist of the Royal Ballet and frequent partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn from 1962, Nureyev is acclaimed as the greatest male dancer of his generation.
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Rudolf (of France) (?-936), duke of Burgundy and king of France (923-936), also called Raoul.
Rudolf was the son of Richard, duke of Burgundy.
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 DVD Booty - Rudolf Nureyev Movies (9 - 11 of 11 DVDs)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
If you read Rudolf Nureyev's life story in a novel,...
Rudolf Nureyev: Three years in the Kirov Theatre
Review of 1999 book about Nureyev's little-discussed years at the Kirov, before he came to Western.....
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 Rudolf Nureyev Biography on Almondnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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For more than thirty years his widely embracing musical personality has inspired and influenced a host of Scandinavian composers.
Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev lived from 1938 until 1993.
He was a ballet dancer, born in Irkutsk, Russia and defected to America in 1961.
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On his return to St.Petersburg (1821) he became a founder of the Siberian commitee for the affairs of Russia beyond the Urals.
Nureyev, Rudolf Hametovich (1938-1993), Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer, perhaps the greatest virtuoso and most charismatic male dancer of his generation.
Born near Irkutsk, he became a soloist with the Kirov Ballet (now the Saint Petersburg Ballet) in 1958.
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 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Romeo and Juliet
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Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Romeo and Juliet
The famous dancing partnership between Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev helped to bring classical ballet to a far wider audience in Britain.
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