He befriended Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 while the Kirov Ballet was in Paris and witnessed his headline-making defection at the height of the Cold War. By Neil Genzlinger She danced with Nureyev and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As The White Crow's title suggests, its perspective derives from the Russian folk metaphor of "the white crow," which describes an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev in a scene from "The White Crow." (Larry Horicks ...

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 ...

Talented and mercurial in equal measure, the dancer Rudolf Nureyev redefined what ballet could be. “The White Crow,” a new biopic from director Ralph Fiennes, focuses on the most important decision in ...

Ralph Fiennes is to direct “The White Crow,” written by David Hare, which centers on the life of Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev. HanWay Films is handling world sales and will introduce the ...

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, ...

Sony Pictures Classics has bought the North American and many foreign market rights to Ralph Fiennes' Rudolf Nureyev biopic THE WHITE CROW, according to Variety. Sony Classics also acquired rights ...

A ballet about Rudolf Nureyev is getting a new life in Germany. Nureyev is the magnetic dancer whose celebrity transcended the ballet world, particularly after his high-profile defection from the ...

A photograph of Rudolf Nureyev hangs backstage at the Royal Opera House in London, an acknowledgment of the time the Russian dancer spent with the Royal Ballet between the early 1960s and late 1970s.

Film Forum will present the exclusive two-week New York theatrical premiere engagement of Nureyev, a feature-length documentary co-directed by BAFTA-nominated directors Jacqui Morris and David Morris, ...