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Rudolf Nureyev: Quick Facts

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Banned ‘Nureyev’ ballet kicks off S.F. Dance Film Festival • Oct. 16, 2026, 9:06 AM ET (San Francisco Chronicle)

Facts

Also Known As Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev
Born March 17, 1938 • Irkutsk • Russia
Died January 6, 1993 (aged 54) • Paris • France

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Rudolf Nureyev performing in Flower Festival at Genzano.
Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing in the ballet Sleeping Beauty, 1973.
Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn
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Aleksandr Glazunov.
Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer
Nikolay Tcherepnin.
Nikolay Tcherepnin
Russian composer
Glière, Reinhold
Reinhold Glière
Soviet composer
Mikhail Baryshnikov performing with the Bolshoi Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Soviet-born American actor and ballet dancer
Yuri Grigorovich
Yuri Grigorovich
Russian dancer and choreographer
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
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Glen Tetley
American dancer
Swan Lake
Sylvie Guillem
French dancer
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Matthew Bourne
British choreographer and dancer
Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar
Ukrainian-French dancer and choreographer
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Sir Robert Helpmann
Australian dancer
Bournonville, oil on canvas by Louis Aumont, 1828; in the Theatre Museum, Copenhagen
August Bournonville
Danish dancer
Dolin in Bluebeard, 1942
Sir Anton Dolin
British dancer
Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor
American dancer
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Eliot Feld
American dancer
Violette Verdy
Violette Verdy
French ballerina
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Dame Ninette de Valois
Irish-born British dancer
Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.
Sir Frederick Ashton
British choreographer
Maurice BĂŠjart.
Maurice BĂŠjart
French dancer