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...Bruhn, 46, now resident producer of the National Ballet of Canada, dominated ballet with sheer elegance. His style was pure and restrained, his partnering impeccable. If anything his reputation has increased since his retirement. He has an enormous following and will dance again this summer at A.B.T. When Rudolf Nureyev burst upon the West in 1961, he brought back some of the Nijinsky excitement. Nureyev has always had Tartar energy and impact; now 37, he has become a dancer of protean range...
...performing for teenagers. They went to Leningrad, where he found the atmosphere of the old czarist capital intoxicating. As a dancer, he could not help visiting the Kirov school. There he happened to attend a class taught by the late Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin, a great master who coached Nureyev and Valery Panov. Not hoping for much, Baryshnikov approached Pushkin (no kin to the famed Russian poet) and said, "I would very much like to be your pupil." Pushkin felt his legs and body and asked him to jump up and down. Says Baryshnikov, "I was like a young goat knocking...
...future that is not barren." With that, Modern Dance Doyenne Martha Graham, 80, announced a New York benefit in June to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her revolutionary dance company. For the occasion, Graham plans a new work called Lucifer. The fallen angel will be played by Rudolf Nureyev. "It's a little typecasting," observed Graham. "I think Nureyev is a God of Light." His longtime partner, Margot Fonteyn, is also scheduled to make her first appearance with a modern dance company in a smaller role. With tickets starting at $50 and climbing to a robust...
...years since he left Russia, Nureyev has grown rich, commanding up to $10,000 per performance. He is so famous that he cannot remember the last tune he met someone who had not heard of him. He loves the high life, is a ubiquitous guest at jet-set parties. Still, dance is never far from his thoughts. "Every book I read, every film I see, each time I go to the theater," he insists, "it is all to gather information pertinent to the dance. You have to stuff yourself...
...many ways Nureyev is more alone than he was on first coming to the West. He speaks wistfully of the beautiful rivers of Ufa, in Bashkir, where he spent his childhood. It is touching to hear him refer involuntarily to the Leningrad Kirov Ballet as "we." Nearing his peak, today Nureyev dances with the familiar bravado, but also a consistency he did not have ten years ago. Finally willing to jettison his princely plumage, he uncovered a gift for simplicity that makes it seem plausible he will some day be as relaxed dancing with his shoes...