Rudolf Nureyev dances onstage in "Faun" in 1978. (Jorge Fatauros/AP) Ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, is the subject of two new films out this month. One is a ...

White Crow is a passion project for the actor and director. Starring talented Russian ballet dancer Oleg Ivenko, it takes a beautifully understated look at the period building to Nureyev's infamous ...

It's a long way from Bond to ballet, but one of the UK's greatest actors and auteurs has made the transition with his usual finesse. Fiennes' latest movie is a personal labour of love, which he has ...

On first meeting, in her sleek navy tracksuit and immaculate trainers, Sylvie Guillem, the superstar ballerina, looks like the pro gymnast she used to be as a girl. A star is always a star, but her ...

He moved with a feral grace, with a heat that blazes through the grain of the film that remains, with a virtuosity that never disguises—but rather illuminates—the sheer risk of dance, the insolence of ...

The Bolshoi hasn't pulled a premiere so late in the day since Soviet times. So when it called off Nureyev: The Ballet, rumours immediately began to fly. The theatre boss insisted the work was so ...

Both works were understandably censored by Romola. It was only after her death that Nijinsky’s homosexual encounters were no longer left to the imagination of those who sensed the truth. Now ...

25 February 1970: Thirty-three years after she first danced the title role in Giselle, the British ballerina talks about reprising the role with partner Rudolf Nureyev Margot Fonteyn was 17 when she ...

It would be absurd to say that Rudolf Nureyev lived, or danced, in anyone’s shadow. He was a man who leapt and twirled and flew onstage, all muscle but light as a feather, with a freedom and force ...

Jacqui and David Morris' documentary 'Nureyev,' about the legendary dancer, includes much never-before-seen footage. By Frank Scheck There has been no shortage of documentaries about Rudolf Nureyev, ...