Interviews

The Australian Women's Weekly
December 23, 1970
by Martha Lear
Excerpts from
Pages 29, 36 and 39

Let me tell you about my 20 minutes with Rudolf Nureyev, World's Greatest Dancer.

Arts Guardian
Saturday
June 24, 1972
By Terry Coleman

Terry Coleman interviews Rudolf Nureyev, who stars in 'I am a Dancer,' which receives a Royal premiere on July 4
HAVING a map of Asiatic Russia with me, I asked Rudolf Nureyev if he could show me where he was born. He said his mother was in a train at the time, on the trans-Siberian railway.

Daily Mail
Saturday
July 15, 1972
By Lynda Lee-Potter

In London at four o'clock yesterday it was hot, sticky and humid. People were sitting around in the sun at Covent Garden peeling peaches, lying back eating strawberries, with the shirt sleeves rolled up. Inside the Royal Ballet rehearsal rooms, with 'Please enter silently' on the shabby door at the top of the rickety steps the heat was unbearable.
Nureyev, in long, thick, woollen grey tights and a grey singlet, his brown hair dripping with sweat, his face ashen with exhaustion, twisted Lyn Seymour up and up and round to the strange discordant music until she crashed in a great thud to the floor.

BBC Audio Interviews