Anniversary gallery: Rudolf Nureyev covers.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RUDOLF NUREYEV Noun 1. Rudolf Nureyev - Russian dancer who was often the partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn and who defected to the United States in 1961 (born in 1938) Nureyev was a shooting star shooting star, in astronomy shooting star, in astronomy: see meteor. shooting star, in botany shooting star, in botany: see primrose. who almost changed the entire dance firmament. Little wonder that during the fine blaze of that brief candle he became a favored Dance Magazine cover-star. He was new, he was charismatic, and with his high Tatar Tatar or Tartar Any member of the Turkic-speaking peoples who today live mainly in west-central Russia east to the Ural Mountains, in Kazakhstan, and in western Siberia. They first appeared as nomadic tribes in northeastern Mongolia in the 5th century. cheekbones and half-amused, half-insolent look with smolderingly Adv. 1. smolderingly - with barely repressed anger; "`I can't wait,' she answered smolderingly" smoulderingly soulful eyes, he had that style cameras love and people notice. Like Nijinsky before him, he was shaped by St. Petersburg's Maryinsky School. As the first defector from Soviet Russia in 1961, he was instantly notorious--the very stuff of gossip. His genius as a dancer, and his phenomenal partnership with Margot Fonteyn, did the rest. Yet he gave the West as much as he took. He was an example, a teacher, a mentor, and finally in Paris, a director. He was unique. He was Nureyev. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] |
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