In 1961, on tour in Paris, the Kirov Ballet's star made a historic dash from his KGB bodyguards into the arms of French police. But was there more to his defection than meets the eye? A BBC film tells the storyThe day after Rudolf Nureyev defected to the west, the Daily Express ran the story on its front page under the triumphant headline "dance to freedom". So began the mythologising of ballet's most famous star, th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM on December 14, 2015