Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
Yes
Creative role
  • Performer

Other info

Venue
Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid, Spain
Company
Scottish Ballet
Sources
  • Marilyn J La Vine (c) 2007 New York
  • Dance and Dancers, October 1975

Scottish Ballet mixed programme

19 September 1975

Scottish Ballet opened an International Dance Festival in Madrid with a short season of mixed programmes. At this performance Nureyev made his role debuts in two works, one of which, Moments, was created for him by Murray Louis. You can read more about his work with contemporary choreographers here: The Seventies: Gate Crashing.

Works

The Lesson

Choreography: Flemming Flindt

Music: Georges Delerue

Performance role: The Teacher

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Elaine McDonald,
Andrea Durant

Moments

Choreography: Murray Louis

Music: Maurice Ravel

Performance role: dancer

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Brian Burn,
Roy Campbell-Moore,
Richard Holland,
Gavin Dorrian