Word: danseur
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...year-old Russian dancer's first appearance since he slipped away in Toronto during a guest tour with the Bolshoi company and asked Canada for refuge. His performance as Albrecht proved that Baryshnikov is ultimately a premier danseur noble - and a star likely to outsoar the shadow of cold war night that made his debut a faintly political occasion...
...animated John Constable landscape. The story tells of the romance between young Farmer Colas (Nureyev) and Lise (Merle Park), daughter of the ambitious widow Simone. With English country dancing and an intricate cavort around a Maypole, it is by no means all Nureyev's show. The familiar danseur noble, burning with erotic fervor, vanished. In his place was an impish rustic, playing cat's cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat bundles. At 36, Nureyev has acquired a new maturity; his dancing is less mannered. In solo work he seems eerily to be improvising-as if he were...
With his dance-tired feet stuffed into a pair of worn and obviously comfortable shoes, Rudolf Nureyev-perhaps the world's greatest danseur noble -accepted the annual Dance Magazine award in Manhattan. His speech was hardly audible, a sentence thanking the people who had helped him since he fled the U.S.S.R. During those twelve years in the West, Rudolf has performed mostly with the Royal Ballet, and is now touring with the National Ballet of Canada. Except for old friends like Dancer Erik Bruhn and Actress Monique Van Vooren, his life is a solo...
Edward Villella, L.H.D., premier danseur, New York City Ballet...
...What is there in the terminology of dance that implies a ballerina and a danseur noble must be white?" asks Arthur Mitchell. The answer is "Nothing." As living and moving proof there is the career of Mitchell himself, the first (and only) black soloist with George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. Now there is also the Harlem Dance Theater, founded by Mitchell scarcely two years...