The one and only: Rudolf Nureyev

On stage with Dame Margot Fonteyn in "Le Corsaire"...



With the Muppets...


In rehearsal with Fonteyn and Roland Petit...


In class...


Part 4 from 5 of a Nureyev-documentation...


Coaching...


Exercising...


When AIDS appeared in France in about 1982, Nureyev, like many people those years, took little notice. He presumably contracted HIV at some point in the early 1980s. For several years he simply denied that anything was wrong with his health: when, in about 1990, he became undeniably ill, he pretended he had several other ailments. He tried several experimental treatments but they did not stop the inevitable decline of his body.

Rudolf Nureyev died at the beginning of 1993.
R.I.P.