White Crow is a passion project for the actor and director. Starring talented Russian ballet dancer Oleg Ivenko, it takes a beautifully understated look at the period building to Nureyev's infamous ...

"The White Crow" leading man Oleg Ivenkov talks Rudolf Nureyev, Ralph Fiennes and more with The Hollywood Reporter. By Alexandra Del Rosario Training as a professional dancer in Ukraine, actor Oleg ...

Rudolf Nureyev dances onstage in "Faun" in 1978. (Jorge Fatauros/AP) Ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, is the subject of two new films out this month. One is a ...

Russia, political asylum, illicit seductions — “The White Crow” feels surprisingly current, though this new film about Soviet ballet star Rudolf Nureyev and his defection to the West centers on events ...

He moved with a feral grace, with a heat that blazes through the grain of the film that remains, with a virtuosity that never disguises—but rather illuminates—the sheer risk of dance, the insolence of ...

It's a long way from Bond to ballet, but one of the UK's greatest actors and auteurs has made the transition with his usual finesse. Fiennes' latest movie is a personal labour of love, which he has ...

In an interview with Atlantic Unbound a few years ago, Colum McCann confessed, "I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination. . . . I think it's better to work ...

Both works were understandably censored by Romola. It was only after her death that Nijinsky’s homosexual encounters were no longer left to the imagination of those who sensed the truth. Now ...

Jacqui and David Morris' documentary 'Nureyev,' about the legendary dancer, includes much never-before-seen footage. By Frank Scheck There has been no shortage of documentaries about Rudolf Nureyev, ...

The Bolshoi hasn't pulled a premiere so late in the day since Soviet times. So when it called off Nureyev: The Ballet, rumours immediately began to fly. The theatre boss insisted the work was so ...