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Nureyev Saluted on Film and TV excerpt from 2000 Dance Magazine, Inc.
Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth excerpt from the New York Public Library New York, February 26, 2002 -- Through paintings, photographs, and designs, Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer provides a multifaceted view of Rudolf Nureyev, one of ballet's rare superstars. Over 35 paintings and drawings of Nureyev by his friend, American artist James Browning Wyeth, plus more than 61 photographs and designs from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and a sampling of Nureyev's costumes are on display. The exhibition runs March 22 through May 25, 2002 in the Vincent Astor Gallery at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. Admission is free. After New York, the exhibition will travel to the Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center in Rockland, Maine, where it will run from June 9, 2002 through January 5, 2003. It will then head to the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, from January 18 through May 18, 2003. Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer opened at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. in February 2002. Wyeth's portraits of Nureyev were inspired by the close friendship that developed between the two artists during the one year that Wyeth spent observing and painting the dancer backstage, in rehearsals, and in performances. Although Wyeth began working on the portraits in 1977, some of the works were only completed some eight years after Nureyev's death in 1993. Larger in scale and brighter in color than the 1977 works, these later paintings depict the consummate performer as he will be remembered – onstage in lavish costumes against dramatic backdrops... Rudolf Nureyev was one of the Soviet Union's most promising young stars when he defected in Paris during the 1961 Kirov Ballet tour of Western Europe. On the international stage, Nureyev's partnership with the Royal Ballet's Margot Fonteyn became one of ballet's legendary pairings, attracting new audiences to the art. With his talent and charisma, he helped revitalize twentieth century ballet, cutting through the traditions and prejudices by insisting on the widest possible choices of repertory and technique. He was the first major classical dancer to regularly work with modern dance choreographers. Nureyev danced as a guest artist with the leading international dance companies and set and choreographed ballet productions for a number of companies. He also developed seasons of programs called Nureyev and Friends, featuring a mix of European contemporary ballets and American modern dance works. From 1983 to 1989, he served as artistic director of the Paris Opéra Ballet. Nureyev died on January 6, 1993 in Paris. In 1999, the Rudolf Nureyev Collection, an archive of his videotapes, films, and audiotapes, was donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts by the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation and the Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation... This press release is available on the web at www.nypl.org/press. Click on the New York Public Library link Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth to read more.
Homage to Rudolf Nureyev by John Percival excerpt from By John Percival28 January 2003 Wouldn't we
expect Paris to present the best of the tributes being paid internationally to
mark 10 years since Rudolf Nureyev's death? The city was where he chose liberty,
then returned repeatedly as star dancer, choreographer and producer. There, too,
his career reached its great climax with the years he spent as director of the
Ballet de l'Opéra. And from what the company's present staff and leading dancers
say in the programme book of their memorial gala – that they think of him daily
to follow his precepts and policies – we may reckon that, effectively, this is
still his creation.... Rudolf Nureyev - The Voice of Russia "Rudolf Nureyev still belongs to the whole world..."
Rudolf Nureyev and The National Ballet of Canada
British Film Institute - This is Nureyev!
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