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Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
Yes
Creative role
  • Performer

Other info

Venue
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Sources
  • Marilyn J La Vine (c) 2007 New York

Paul Taylor Dance Company mixed programme

27 June 1972

Nureyev made a double role debut at this performance with the Paul Taylor Dance Company after joining them during their tour of Mexico.  He went on to perform Aureole many times in his Nureyev and Friends seasons.

You can read more about Nureyev’s work with Paul Taylor and other contemporary choreographers here.

Works

Aureole

Choreography: Paul Taylor

Music: George Frideric Handel

Performance role: dancer

Debut performance of this role

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

Book of Beasts

Choreography: Paul Taylor

Music: Various

Performance role: The Squonk

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Elie Chaib,
Nicholas Gunn,
Bettie de Jong,
Carolyn Adams,
Ruby Shang,
Monica Morris