Licensing, rights and acknowledgements
Rights to Rudolf Nureyev’s choreographies
The rights to all of Rudolf Nureyev’s choreographic works are owned by the Foundation and licensed via Editions Mario Bois.
Rights to the image and personality of Rudolf Nureyev
The Foundation is responsible for Nureyev’s personality and performance rights and all enquiries relating to usage should be directed to
Rights to the Francette Levieux collection
The Foundation owns the copyright to a collection of Rudolf Nureyev photographs by Francette Levieux. All enquiries relating to the use or commercial exploitation of the Levieux photographs should be sent to
Rudolf Nureyev Foundation’s image archive
The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation Collection of Archive footage is held in the Performing Arts Dance Research Department of the New York Public Library. These commercial and private films from around the world were collected together by Wallace Potts after the death of Rudolf Nureyev and contain ballet performance and rehearsals, plus documentary, interview, news and privately filmed material. A small selection of this is available at the Centre Nationale de Danse in Paris and also in the Maude Lloyd and Wallace Potts Collection at Rambert’s Rehearsal Studio Archive Department in London.
Information about copyright
Information on copyright can be found in the catalogue of the New York Public Library Legacy website
The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation’s archivist may be able to offer advice and can be contacted via
All the photographs on this website are protected by copyright and cannot be used, sent, copied on any other website or any printed document without the permission of the photographers:
Frederika Davis
Zoe Dominic
Pascal François / Centre National du Costume de Scène
Christian Leiber / Opéra National de Paris
Jacques Moatti
Michael Peto
Alexandra della Porta
Donald Southern Collection at Royal Ballet & Opera Collections
Giorgio Tagliafico
Jurgen Vollmer
Freddy Warren
For any information regarding these photos please contact the photographer or their agent directly.