Often described as Nureyev's successor, the man has such presence that I find it hard to concentrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

( "I saw Nureyev dance it in the 1970s," he says.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Leap Forward:] Reference

Is Acosta the closest thing we have now to Nureyev?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

'Tell me about this Nureyev guy,' said Sullivan to my friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The good, the bad, and the somewhere-in-between] Reference

“Could you keep Nureyev and Baryshnikov at bay while I do it?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Edge] Reference

Images of Baryshnikov, Nureyev and Vasiliev continually inspired me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mao's last dancer]

Baryshnikov, Bujones and Nureyev were still dancing, Makarova and Gelsey.    From Wordnik.com.  [In London for the publication of his autobiography, Li Cunxin talks to ballet.co.uk about the book and about his life as a dancer.] Reference

Nureyev defected in 1961 at the same time the Royal Ballet was in Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking the Royal Ballet to New Heights] Reference

Nureyev, for a while, had a house about ten minutes walk from where we live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

I had an amazing teacher who gave me books on Nureyev, Baryshnikov, Makarova.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Ailey, the Battle Has Only Begun] Reference

Tonight we are watching a biography of Nureyev on the late night art channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jill Robinson: Christmas in London] Reference

Nureyev, who had been suffering from AIDS, died at age 54 in a Paris hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Also, I spent some time reading the biography of Rudolf Nureyev that I bought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burblings ...] Reference

My safest bet is that Rahm was on line, lapping up the video of Rudolf Nureyev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debra Levine: Return to Ballet World for Rahm Emanuel?] Reference

That all changed in the second season when ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from The Muppet Show] Reference

Nureyev, Patricia McBride and Balanchine all turned to the source of the disruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darci Kistler Exits the Stage] Reference

Several horses here are given such names as Nureyev, Lorenzo de Medici, and Ivan Boesky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horse Heaven: Summary and book reviews of Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley.] Reference

I remember when Nureyev took those five steps into France, which gave him freedom from Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jill Robinson: Christmas in London] Reference

He has danced Romeo, Spartacus -- all the big roles -- and been compared to Baryshnikov and Nureyev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina Patterson: Interview with Carlos Acosta: 'I Am Insufferable'] Reference

Mr. Polunin was just 13 years old in 2003, when the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation agreed to sponsor him.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the World's a Stage] Reference

Thanks in no small part, of course, to Baryshnikov, who succeeded Nureyev on the ballet superstar throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [That's (not) dancing] Reference

Reminds me ov a photo ov Nureyev still floating around teh web that proovifies teh point. lolcatburglar says.    From Wordnik.com.  [You don’t understand. This - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

They had lost some of their best dancers to the West that way -- Nureyev, Baryshnikov, Makarova and others too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mao's last dancer]

Soon after, his idol Nureyev, then head of the Paris Opera Ballet, invited him to invent a work for the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Dance On Its Toes] Reference

Concert dance was once so popular, in the era of Baryshnikov, Fonteyn and Nureyev, Martha Graham, and Balanchine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Top 6] Reference

Meanwhile I have a hot date with my tv tonight: special documentary Nureyev: From Russia with love on BBC2 at 9.30.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

There were videos of Baryshnikov, Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, even two American-trained dancers including Gelsey Kirkland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mao's last dancer]

Nureyev, incidentally, was a former citizen of the Soviet Union, who had been granted political asylum in Great Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Galapagos]

The Nureyev Foundation didn't run a competition, but relied on schools to identify the most able and deserving students.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the World's a Stage] Reference

Howland was so adept at playing cornpone types that it's just funny and actually very cool to see him capering like a Nureyev.    From Wordnik.com.  [Invitation to the Danse] Reference

Once I was out of art school and no longer having to look like a goyisher housepainter, my ties leapt like Nureyev upon my chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalooki Nights] Reference

Jacobi met Fonteyn and Nureyev on several occasions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Read my Nureyev biography. 20, 30, 40 pages at a clip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheila Variations] Reference

Bruno is no Nureyev, but still, that is a beautiful photograph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

"I want people who have never heard of Fonteyn and Nureyev to enjoy it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference