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Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev [a] (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the most preeminent male ballet dancer of his generation as well as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Baryshnikov performed in his first film role soon after arriving in New York. He portrayed the character Yuri Kopeikine, a famous, womanizing Russian ballet dancer, in the 1977 film The Turning Point, for which he received an Oscar nomination.
11 sty 1998 · Joan Acocella’s Profile of the dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who, after defecting from the Soviet Union, became one of the most famous names in ballet in the twentieth century.
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: Майя Михайловна Плисецкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship.
Considered one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers of all time, Soviet virtuoso Mikhail Baryshnikov choreographs his own Cold War-era defection from the U.S.S.R. after four years of...
26 kwi 2019 · The defection made international news and thrust the Russian dancer, whose talent drew millions of new fans to the theater, into the public eye for the next 30 years.
30 kwi 2018 · Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) was a Russian-born ballet dancer who became one of the Soviet Union’s best known artists. He defected to the West at the height of the Cold War, an incident which brought considerable public interest and embarrassment for the Soviet Union.
