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Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the preeminent male ballet dancer of the 20th century, as well as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time.

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entertainment · Soviet-born ballet dancer (1938–1993) · ballet dancer · choreographer · actor · ballet master · director · dancer · musician · also Rudolf Nureyev, Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev, Nureyev

Born 17 March 1938 · Died 6 January 1993 · Q84217

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but I could not get rid of [her minder] for long enough
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s in the Dakota building opposite Central Park, the house beside a nudist beach at St Barts in the Caribbean, the Virginia ranch house where a whole room was devoted to an organ so that Nureyev could play Bach. Some of their happiest times were at the ranch house. Jackie Onassis would come to ride, friends and dinner would be flown in from New York.
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Aug 17, 2026Documented record85% confidence

“but I could not get rid of [her minder] for long enough”

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Aug 17, 2026Documented record85% confidence

“s in the Dakota building opposite Central Park, the house beside a nudist beach at St Barts in the Caribbean, the Virginia ranch house where a whole room was devoted to an organ so that Nureyev could play Bach. Some of their happiest times were at the ranch house. Jackie Onassis would come to ride, friends and dinner would be flown in from New York.”

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2026Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

It was announced that filming would begin on "Margot & Rudy

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2015· 1 entry

2015Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev was inducted into the Legacy Walk in Chicago and the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs

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1994· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1994Documented record76% confidence

Released album “Wiener Residenz Orchestra conducted by Rudolph Nureyev”.

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1993· 7 entries

Jan 6, 1993Documented record86% confidence

Died 1993-01-06.

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1993Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

The Paris Opera has instituted a tradition of presenting an evening of dance homage to Nureyev every 10 years

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c. 1993Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

“Ognuno vorrebbe esser il più grande, ma Dio non può accordare quest'onore a tutti.”

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“Penso che i ballerini vadano pagati non per quel che fanno, ma per la paura che provano. Probabilmente, ciò che fai non è poi così difficile: lo diventa appena sali sul palcoscenico. È, comunque, la paura che ti dà la spinta.”

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“Se non ballo mi sento infelicissimo.”

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“I musicals han dato all'America una cultura etnica, che ha senza dubbio influenzato il balletto.”

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“The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.”

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1992· 1 entry

1992Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Tracy had hired a lawyer to negotiate a settlement from Nureyev

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1989· 2 entries

1989Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was invited to dance the role of James in La Sylphide with the Mariinsky Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre in Leningrad

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1989Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Toured the United States and Canada for 24 weeks with a revival of the Broadway musical The King and I

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1988· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1988Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1988).

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1987· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1987Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Capezio Dance Award (1987).

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1984· 1 entry

1984Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

But for several years he denied that anything was wrong with his health

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1983· 2 entries

1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Had a non-dancing role in the movie Exposed with Nastassja Kinski

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1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was appointed director of the Paris Opera Ballet, where, as well as directing, he continued to dance and to promote younger dancers

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1981· 1 entry

1981Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Bought an apartment at 23 Quai Voltaire in Paris

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1979· 3 entries

1979Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev met American dancer and classical arts student Robert Tracy

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1979Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev purchased an apartment in the Dakota in New York

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1979Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev collaborated with Stanley Dorfman to direct a stage and television special performance of Giselle, with music composed by Adolphe Adam

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1978· 1 entry

1978Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Appeared as a guest star on the television series The Muppet Show where he danced in a parody called "Swine Lake", sang "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in a sauna duet with Miss Piggy, and sang and tap-danced in the show's

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1977· 2 entries

1977Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev and Jamie Wyeth became unexpected friends when the dancer was staying at the artist's property in Maine

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1977Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev played Rudolph Valentino in Ken Russell's film Valentino

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1975· 4 entries

1975Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev worked extensively with American Ballet Theatre resurrecting Le Corsaire with Gelsey Kirkland

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1975Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Selected her as his Sleeping Beauty in his staging for London Festival Ballet

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1975Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Potts left Nureyev when he walked in on him having sex with a Frenchman

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1975Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev founded the Ballet Promotion Foundation with the goals of managing and investing an endowment fund and any other assets, as well as allocating grants from investment revenue to the Foundation's beneficiaries

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1973· 2 entries

1973Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Appeared in a cameo for The Morecambe & Wise Show Christmas Special

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1973Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

A film version of Don Quixote was directed by Nureyev and Helpmann and features Nureyev as Basilio, Lucette Aldous as Kitri, Helpmann as Don Quixote and artists of the Australian Ballet

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1972· 3 entries

1972Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Staged a spectacular new production of Sleeping Beauty for the company, with his own additional choreography augmenting that of Petipa

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1972Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Sir Robert Helpmann invited him to tour Australia with Nureyev's production of Don Quixote

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1972Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev was a guest in David Winters' television special The Special London Bridge Special

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1969· 1 entry

1969Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev met Wallace Potts in Atlanta during the Royal Ballet Tour of North America

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1962· 3 entries

1962Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev made his screen debut in a film version of Les Sylphides

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1962Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

On network television in America partnered with Maria Tallchief dancing the pas de deux from August Bournonville's Flower Festival in Genzano on The Bell Telephone Hour

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1962Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev also partnered with Sonia Arova at New York City's Brooklyn Academy of Music

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1961· 1 entry

1961Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Defected to the West, despite KGB efforts to stop him

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1960· 1 entry

1960Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The French organisers urged Soviet authorities to let him dance in Paris, and he was allowed to go

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1959· 1 entry

1959Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Were allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union, dancing in Vienna at the International Youth Festival

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1958· 1 entry

1958Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Nureyev joined the Kirov Ballet (now Mariinsky)

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1938· 1 entry

Mar 17, 1938Documented record86% confidence

Born 1938-03-17.

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