You are lucky really

My mom was privileged to see him. He was 16 y.o. He started late in ballet, by any means. My mom watched him perform in Ufa, his home town and my home town. Even before he was picked by that famous St. Petersburg ballet academy, Vaganova. Earth did not give birth yet to any better ballet dancer than Rudolf Nuriev.

@@juliam4100 Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this, Julia. What a gift your mother received; and you, through her.

Oh how lucky you were.❤

I'm glad you like it) He's inspirational...

Yes..

The film is called The white crow and it's directed by Ralph Fiennes. The trailer is on KZfaq now.

Thanks! Now I know too about "The white crow"

@@kotechkachanel8397 It's my pleasure to assist. After watching the trailer, I became enamored by him and his life. It's a weird feeling.

It is impossible to be indifferent to him because he was the unique dancer and person. So, his life really was like as "the white crow".

I havnt seen The White Wolf yet, it is showing near me for the next few days but I bet that this is just as good !

You're welcome)

No, No - Ralph did Lots of obscure research - this was also a part of it, part,,,,of IT:)

He was bisex 😃

He was beautiful😊

I think that was part of the ruse. He died a millionaire and knew what awaited him in the west. His biggest miscalculation was how much he thought the royal ballet in London would want, cherish and keep him. He started so late and he always struggled with his flexibility and technicality and it makes a difference, training a growing body into a sport and training someone almost done growing their body. I teach horseback riding and I’ll tell you…..my adult amateurs take so much longer to achieve what children and youths do. It’s best to learn a sport or art before you’re done growing. I have many automatic responses and muscle memory when it comes to swimming (I almost went to the Olympics), riding (my family was not supportive and my education I worked for incredibly hard. I also played volleyball and skied competitively and as a woman in her late thirties I have gone years away from each sport except riding (only one brief break, it’s so expensive) and it isn’t hard to come back. The training and muscle memory was laid down as I was developing and my brain and body are rusty but remember. I think he could have been the greatest male ballet dancer of all time, had he only started in childhood and had more stability in finding his ballet home. He danced longer than any of them and it shows you how hard you can work if you really want something and achieve it.

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Artem Ovcharenko. He is a soloist dancer of the Bolshoi Theatre

@Johney Smith You again? What is your problem? I repeat: You sir are a humongous idiot. I grant you that Russian dancers were and are probably better than ours. On the other hand you have to be in a rare class of stupid to suppress a talent like Nureyev, like you Russians did in the 60's. Your loss, our win. At least here in Europe we let him express himself, not only in dance but also in love. So go away, you miserable little awful narrowminded person, and keep your bigoted opinions to yourself. You disgust me.

@Johney Smith Bullshit

@Johney Smith the press and politicians used him. The fans use everyone, even in Russia. Everyone knows he had technical issues but he had personality which is why the West won. No personality in mother country. Niet.

@Johney Smith take a breath and stop hating

So now he is All about LGTB! Sex was not at All - that important for him - quality of company made the World interesting for him,,,male or female,,,he was beyound that and in search of beauty....please stop using him for political posters!