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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.
Nureyev met Erik Bruhn, the celebrated Danish dancer, after Nureyev defected to the West in 1961.
11 sie 2015 · Nureyev was the first Soviet ballet dancer to defect – he stayed behind in Paris in 1961 while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
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.
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...
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.
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.
