Rudolf Nureyev
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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
Nureyev in 1973
Rudolf Nureyev after his defection from the Soviet Union in 1961.
Margot Fonteyn, Fred Astaire and Nureyev from a 1965 appearance on the U.S. television show The Hollywood Palace
Nureyev with Liliana Cosi in Rome, 1972
Margot Fonteyn
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Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, now known as the Ro
Rudolf Nureyev
…Ballet, who became his lover. In October 1961, Nureyev was secretly invited to make his London debut at the annual gala organised by prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn for the Royal Academy of Dance. Nureyev danced Poème Tragique, a solo choreographed by Frederick Ashton, and the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake…
Fonteyn in the 1960s
Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn, Façade (1936)
Fonteyn and Helpmann, The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells 1950 U.S. tour
At a rehearsal for The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953 (at the time known as Toast of the Town)