[StuartFeldman]

If you subscribe to TOS, you can read Craig Biddle’s glowing tribute to Nureyev on this day (6/16) in 1961, when he defected from the USSR.

I was a freshmen in high school at the time, and Nureyev was all the rage. I grew up loving ballet, my mother being a dancer, and was captivated by his artistry. His leaps were compared with the great Nijinsky decades before.

He was, as I remember, one of the first, if not the first, to whom the term ‘superstar’ was applied, others being Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) and Joe Namath.

Here is the YouTube link to his Pas de deux, with the much older but incomparable, Margot Fonteyn, from the ballet, Le Corsaire:

https://youtube/bc29kCSYelI

/sb

[StuartFeldman]

Re: Stuart Feldman’s post 100722 of 6/16/18

I mistakenly credited Craig Biddle with this tribute to Nureyev! The piece was actually an article submitted to TOS by our own Robert Begley.

Robert called my attention to this error in an email of appreciation for this post, but did not insist on a correction. Of course not to do that would be a gross injustice to him.

My apologies, Robert.

*sb

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