"The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop," Rudolf Nureyev once proclaimed. Not just any ordinary performer, Nureyev ...

As good as Julie Kavanagh’s new biography of Rudolf Nureyev is, nothing in it seems to explain the legendary dancer quite as well as a brief film clip at the beginning of the new PBS documentary ...

Even before he died almost 20 years ago of complications from AIDS, Rudolf Nureyev had entered the realm of legend. As a dancer, choreographer, fine arts collector, political refugee and social animal ...

The loss was and remains immense. He has been gone now for a decade, and dance lovers everywhere ask: Will there ever be anyone like Rudolf Nureyev? He left us on the Feast of the Epiphany, Jan. 6, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

No one was quite prepared for what they saw when Rudolf Nureyev was unleashed. It wasn’t just the iconic dancer’s athletic abandon, though that was impressive enough. He turned faster than anyone and ...

Despite his HIV-positive diagnosis in the early 1980s, Russian-born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev continued to dance and work as the director of the Paris Opera, as chronicled in this documentary that ...

I am offended by The Times’ salacious reportage of Rudolf Nureyev’s private life [“Nureyev: Dancing Around the Lies,” Aug. 19]. What illumination can arise from attacks on Nureyev’s veracity, all ...

James Wyeth, the painter whose works form the core of a slick new Kennedy Center exhibition devoted to images of Rudolf Nureyev, once introduced the Russian dancer to Arnold Schwarzenegger, back in ...

The magnificent Rudolf Nureyev was the first male superstar of modern ballet, a complex, absorbing figure whose life involved early gay politics and the Cold War. He was a dynamo who graced “The Ed ...

He befriended Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 while the Kirov Ballet was in Paris and witnessed his headline-making defection at the height of the Cold War. By Neil Genzlinger She danced with Nureyev and ...