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The Dancer Who Flew, A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev, by Linda Maybarduk

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

Welcome to The Rudolf Nureyev® Dance Foundation dedicated to Rudolf Nureyev, "the greatest dancer of his time."  "He wanted his name and spirit to carry on after his death and he created the Foundation for that purpose."  Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation based in Chicago, U.S.A. provides grants in the U.S. for ballet and modern dance performances, funds dance schools and dance scholarships, provides financial assistance for the creation of new choreography and re-staging the great choreographic productions Rudolf Nureyev created, and supports the establishment of dance collections and film archives to preserve the history, tradition and appreciation of dance.  The Foundation's Board of Directors - Jeannette Etheredge, Paul Horowitz, Joyce A. Moffatt, Barry L. Weinstein, and Hilary Weinstein - wish to provide information about Rudolf Nureyev and help dance organizations in the United States that are seeking grants to submit meaningful proposals to the Foundation for its consideration.

"Now and then in life, one has to take a decision like lightning, almost quicker than one can think.  I have known this in dancing when something on the stage goes wrong." "For a bird must fly.  I see nothing political in the necessity for a young artist to see the world: to compare, assimilate, to enrich his art with new experiences, both for his own profit and that of his country."

"Rudolf Nureyev was perhaps the greatest dancer of his time.  He will be remembered not only for his brilliance on the stage, but for his daring flight to freedom in 1961, when he became the first of the great Russian dancers to defect to the West.  He continued to dance, as a free man, for three decades."

Biographical Source Material:
Rudolf Nureyev on Ballet.Contexts

Rudolf Nureyev: Three Years in the Kirov Theatre

The Dancer Who Flew by Linda Maybarduk

Rudolf Nureyev® Dance Foundation
Andrea White, Program Manager
308 W. Erie Street, Suite 700
Chicago, Illinois 60654 
Telephone:  (312) 649-0700
 

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