Rudolf Nureyev's dance career spanned 3 decades, from 1959 with the Kirov in Leningrad to 1992 when he staged his final production of La Bayadere at the Paris Opera.  Follow Rudolf Nureyev's career by clicking on the years listed below.

• 1958    1959    1960    1961    1962   
  From:  6/58 - Leningrad & Moscow -  Public performance with Kirov as student: Nutcracker, Swan Lake pas, Diana and Acteon, Gayane, Corsaire
  To:    3/10/62 - Brooklyn - Brooklyn Academy of Music with Ruth Page's Chicago Opera: Don Quixote pas (Sonia Arova)
• 1962- 1963  
  From: 4/62 - 3/63 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, Beauty, Swan Lake, Antigone, Diversions, Marquerite and Armond, Les Sylphides, Don Quixote pas, Le Corsaire (rechoreographed and produced by RN), Flower Festival.
  To:  3/30/63 - London - Poisoned hand forces RN to cancel debut in Symphonic Variations.
• 1963-1964 
  From: 4/63 to 3/64 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, Swan Lake, Bayadere, M & A, Symphonic Variations, Corsaire, Petrushka, Les Sylphides.  RN provided additional choreography for new Swan Lake; revised and produced Bayadere. 
  To: 2/9/64 - London - ATV: Laurentia Act II pas (Nerina)
• 1964-1965
  From: 3/3/64 - London - Royal: debut in Helpmann's Swan Lake (Fonteyn); RN arranged Polonaise and Mazurka.
  To: 3/24/65 - London - Royal Gala: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor (Mason and Parkinson), Laurentia
• 1965-1966
  From: 4/65 to 3/66 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, R & J, Swan Lake, Bayadere
  To: 4/14/66 - London - TV - BBC: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Ballet, rehearsal of R & J with Fonteyn
• 1966-1967
  From: 5/18/66 - Vienna - Vienna State Opera: premiere of Tancredi, choreographed by RN
  To: 7/14-18/67 - Hollywood
• 1967-1968
  From: 7/19 - 20/67 - San Diego
  To: 9/1/68 or 9/17/68? - Milan - La Scala: premiere of Poem of Ecstasy, Beauty (Colombo), La Sylphide (Fracci), Nutcracker grand pas (Park)
• 1968-1969
  From: 10/68 - Teheran - Iranian Ballet: Gala for Shah's birthday
  To: 10/69 -   - In interview in teenage girls' magazine RN said "I want to try everything ... All in ten years.  For that's about the end of my dancing life."
• 1969-1970
  From: 10/17 to 11/9/69 - Paris - Paris Opera, Palais des Sports: Swan Lake (Motte) Giselle Act II, Rite of Spring; John Taras, artistic director.
  To: 12/26/70 to 3/71 - USA/Canada - Australian Ballet, US tour: Don Quixote (RN dancing all performances); LA, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, Boston.
• 1971-1972-1973 
  From: 3/14/71 - Brussels - Maurice Béjart: Rite of Spring (learned in 3 days) and Songs of a Wayfarer (Nureyev and Paolo Bortoluzzi) (total of 8 performances)
  To: 5/7/73 - New York - Dance Magazine Award presented by Bruhn
• 1973-1974-1975
  From: 7/14/- 28/73 - Paris - Paris Opera, outdoor performances at Louvre: Swan Lake (Pontois, Thesmar, Makarova - who quit due to cold or RN ...scandal)
  To: 9/7 - 17/75 - Spain - Scottish Ballet: Moment (Murray Louis), Lesson, La Sylphide, Flower Festival, Sonate a trois.
• 1975-1976
  From:  10/75 - Europe - Dutch National tour: Blown on a Gentle Wind (Van Dantzig), Corsaire.  See Tour Itinerary. Vienna, Zurich, Lugano, Lausanne, Basel, Bregenz, St. Gallen, Geneva.
  To: 11/23/76 - London - Royal Ballet gala: R & J Balcony pas (Makarova).
• 1977-1978
  From: 1/77 - 2/77 - Paris - Nureyev Festival, Palais des Sports.  Scottish Ballet: La Sylphide (Makarova), Giselle (Seymour), Moments, Four Schumann Pieces (with dancers from National Ballet of Canada).  Pierrot Lunaire, Wayfarer, The Lesson (Flindt, Eliasen, Vessel).
  To: 1/18 0 2/19/78 - Paris - London Festival: R & J (Ruanne, Evdokimova, Terabust, Seymour).
• 1978-1979
  From: 4/6 - 7/78 - Milan - LaScala: revival of Beauty (Fracci).
  To: 6/27/79 - London - Beryl Grey forced to resign.
• 1979-1980
  From:  7/3/79 - 7/30/79 - New York - National Ballet: Beauty, Giselle, Coppelia (Bruhn did 2 performances) Jeoffrey: Diaghilev program.
  To: 4/13/80 - New York - RN to choreograph and dance in "Parade" at Met.
• 1980-1981
  From: 4/22 thru 5/3/80 - New York - Martha Graham Dance Company: Equatorial, Appalachian Spring, Clytemnestra; at the Metropolitan Opera House.
  To: 3/81 - Paris - Paris Opera: Don Quixote and La Sylphide - at the Opera and the Theatre des Champs Elysees.  Patel - Queen of Dryads.  Elisabeth Platel
• 1981-1982
  From: 4/14/81 - New York - Paul Taylor Dance Company, From Sea to Shining Sea with Baryshnikov
  To: 8/82 - Athens - Manfred
• 1982-1983
  From: 9/82 - USA - Magazine ad: "Is very good vodka."
  To: 5/25/83 - Vienna - UPI report (picked up in San Juan, Costa Rica, etc.) - RN got splinters in foot during performance of Sleeping Beauty.
• 1983-1984
  From: 6/83 - 8/83 - Europe - Boston Ballet 6-week tour: Don Quixote, Giselle and Swan Lake (Morishita), in Italy, France,  Belgium, England (Manchester)
  To: 3/84 - Paris - Paris Opera: Marco Spada, The Tempest
• 1984-1985
  From: 4/84 - Paris - Paris Opera: Bach Suite
  To: 4/85 - Paris  - Paris Opera: New production of Giselle (Mary Skeaping) - Baryshnikov danced in place of RN.
• 1985-1986
  From: 6/6/85 - Paris - Paris Opera: premiere of Washington Square.
  To: 7/9-19/86 - New York  - Paris Opera: Swan Lake, Les Mirages, Washington Square, Palais de Cristal, Raymonda variations; at the Met; Legris made an etoile on stage.
• 1986-1987
  From:  7/22-27/86 - Washington - Paris Opera: Swan Lake, Les Mirages, Washington Square, Palais de Cristal, Raymonda variations; at the Met; Legris made an etoile on stage.  Bomb threat at 7/26 performance of Swan Lake.
  To: 11/27 - 28/87 - Atlantic City - Nureyev & Friends: at Caesar's Palace
• 1987-1988-1989-1990-1991-1992
  From: 12/87 - Paris - Paris Opera: Nutcracker (12/21, 24, & 26).
  To: 1/12/93 - Paris - A ceremony in RN's honor held at the Paris Opera House followed by funeral in Ste. Geneviève-des-Bois where RN was buried in a Russian Orthodox Cemetery.  May 6, 1996, a monument created by Ezio Frigerio in the form of a trunk with an oriental carpet thrown over it in red, blue, and gold mosaics was install at the grave site.