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Owing to the disruption of Soviet cultural life caused by World War II, Nureyev was unable to enroll in a major ballet school until 1955, aged 17, when he was accepted by the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet of Leningrad, the associate school of the Mariinsky Ballet.
Rudolf Nureyev, the young star of the Soviet Union’s Kirov Opera Ballet Company, defects during a stopover in Paris. The high-profile defection was a blow to Soviet prestige and generated...
He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He subsequently became a noted dance director. [3] Born in Riga, Latvian SSR, into a Russian family, Baryshnikov had a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad before defecting to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in Western dance.
Sixty years ago, a young dancer named Rudolf Nureyev made a dash for freedom while on tour in France with the Kirov Ballet, enraging Soviet authorities.
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.
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.
12 lip 2017 · Rudolf Nureyev, one of the world's greatest ballet dancers, defected to the West in 1961 while on tour with his Soviet ballet company. Impresario Victor Hochhauser organised the tour which...
