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• My Surprising Duet With Arthur Mitchell in Cold War Moscow

  25-09-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The ballerina Allegra Kent remembers dancing “Agon” with Mr. Mitchell on opening night of New York City Ballet’s 1962 tour of the Soviet Union.
  
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• 'You couldn't take your eyes off him': the triumph and tragedy of Rudolf Nureyev

  25-09-2018 07:00
  He was an explosively powerful dancer whose grace and beauty revolutionised ballet. Has anyone ever leapt higher? As two Nureyev films appear, we remember the impoverished Russian kid who electrified the worldIt was impossible not to know who Rudolf Nureyev was. From the moment the dancer defected to the west, turning his back on his home and the Kirov company that trained him, he blazed across the front pages. It was June 1961 and relations between the west and the Soviet Union had thawed enoug
  
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• 'He was flying': how Rudolph Nureyev defied gravity

  25-09-2018 07:00
  He was an explosively powerful dancer whose grace and beauty revolutionised ballet. Has anyone ever leapt higher? As two Nureyev films appear, we remember the impoverished Russian kid who electrified the worldIt was impossible not to know who Rudolf Nureyev was. From the moment the dancer defected to the west, turning his back on his home and the Kirov company that trained him, he blazed across the front pages. It was June 1961 and relations between the west and the Soviet Union had thawed enoug
  
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