Oleg Ivenko is a nimble dancer but, unfortunately, a very stiff actor. The degree of difficulty is high for Ivenko's performance as ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev in "The White Crow." The native of ...

I remember watching Rudolf Nureyev perform part of the ballet Giselle on television. It must have been The Ed Sullivan Show or The Bell Telephone Hour. He was too big a superstar to dance in any ...

Russia, political asylum, illicit seductions — “The White Crow” feels surprisingly current, though this new film about Soviet ballet star Rudolf Nureyev and his defection to the West centers on events ...

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 ...

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 ...

Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev following their performance in the Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Metropolitan Opera in 1965 - Bettmann Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet was ...

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 ...

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, ...

"The White Crow" leading man Oleg Ivenkov talks Rudolf Nureyev, Ralph Fiennes and more with The Hollywood Reporter. By Alexandra Del Rosario Training as a professional dancer in Ukraine, actor Oleg ...

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 ...