Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
No
Creative role
  • Performer
  • Producer

Other info

Venue
Uris Theatre, New York, USA
Company
Nureyev and Friends
Sources

Nureyev and Friends

26 December 1974 to 25 January 1975

This was the American premiere of the Nureyev and Friends programme, in which Nureyev danced in each work at every performance, and which evolved into tours with changing programmes and dancers throughout many years. The programme had been tried out in Paris in June 1974. The last Nureyev and Friends tour finished in Australia in 1991. Details of each season/tour will be added to this database as they are confirmed.

At these first performances Nureyev was accompanied by guest artists and members of the Paul Taylor Dancers.

A copy of the theatre programme for this first run of performances is available on Playbill here.

Works

Apollo

Choreography: George Balanchine

Music: Igor Stravinsky

Performance role: Apollo

Other performers: Merle Park (Terpsichore),
Lynda Yourth (Polyhymnia),
Lisa Bradley (Calliope)

Aureole

Choreography: Paul Taylor

Music: George Frideric Handel

Performance role: dancer

Other performers: Carolyn Adams,
Nicholas Gunn,
Eileen Cropley,
Ruby Shang

The Moor's Pavane

Choreography: José Limón

Music: Henry Purcell

Performance role: The Moor

Other performers: Louis Falco (His Friend),
Merle Park (His Friend's Wife),
Lisa Bradley (The Moor's Wife)