Word: nureyev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I am dancing with him," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, "and I look across the stage, I see not Nureyev but the character of the ballet. I don't see, as I do with others, a man I know and talk to every day. I see the ballet. He is how I would like to be, and he makes it easier for me to dance as I wish...
Margot Fonteyn, a little past her great ballerina days at 43, has found in Russian Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 24, one of the most satisfactory partners of her career. They make quite a pair. Seventeen months have now passed since he defected in Paris from the Kirov Ballet company of Leningrad (TIME, June 23, 1961). Dancing with Fonteyn, Nureyev has gained in control and assurance without losing any of the instinctive stage sense that made him an immediate hit. Audiences seem absorbed with every movement of his small, compact body, every expression of his high-cheekboned face. When he has completed...
...Shadows. Overshadowed by its better known rival from Moscow, the Kirov itself had never made it across the Atlantic. Now, after a six-week success in Paris (where one dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, bolted from guards and won political asylum) and London, the Kirov is making its North American debut with a twelveweek, eight-city, cross-continent tour...