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-Next on "Great Performances,"

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the artistry of legendary
dancer and choreographer

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Rudolf Nureyev.

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His sensational performances
made him a dance icon

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and electrified audiences
around the world.

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-He would just make the hairs
on the back of your neck

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stand up just by being on stage.

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-At 26 years old,
his choreography

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and star performance
in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"

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changed ballet forever.

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-He definitely broke the mold
of the male dancer --

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stands behind the ballerina and
always lifts her up in the air.

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He really put himself --
not in front of the ballerina,

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but let's say
beside the ballerina.

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-Rudolf put in a solo.
Very, very sort of sad.

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And it's now become the standard
in every production.

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-And Nureyev's
unexpected chemistry

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with the more mature
Dame Margot Fonteyn

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thrilled audiences.

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-What most inspires me
about this couple

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is the importancy
of partnership.

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It's the partnership.
That's what makes the story.

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-Featuring extensive sequences
from Nureyev's

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1964 production of
Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake,"

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"The Magic of Nureyev" is next.

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-He would just make

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the hairs on the back
of your neck stand up

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just by being on stage.

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-Like a rare jewel
that, you know --

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There's only a few of them,

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those giant diamonds,
in the whole world,

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and he was one of those.

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-Ballet history was made

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at the Vienna State Opera
in October 1964

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when 26-year-old Russian dancer
Rudolf Nureyev

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choreographed "Swan Lake"

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and cast himself
as the male lead.

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His version of Tchaikovsky's
love story

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would go on to make him the
dance icon of the 20th century.

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-A friend and I would go
and queue for tickets,

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literally staying up all night,

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and we would go and buy
masses of daffodils.

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And to shower him from the gods,
we would throw daffodils down.

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-This is the famous fairy tale

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about the Prince and the Swan
and love.

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The search of what is love,

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what is --
what you want to find,

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what you give your heart for.

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-To go and stage
an entire classic,

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taking the essence
of the original,

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the Petipa and the Ivanov,

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and making the changes
that he wanted to make.

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-When he was offered to create
a new "Swan Lake" for Vienna,

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this is like
the gift of a lifetime.

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That doesn't happen very often,

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especially not
at such a young age.

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Nureyev was 25.

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-Rudolf put in a solo.
Very, very sort of sad.

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And it's now become the standard
in every production.

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And it's wonderful
because it shows

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his understanding
of Tchaikovsky,

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who was very outcast
by his homosexuality.

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-Wow.

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-Genius.

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[ Train whistle blows ]

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-When Rudolf was born in Russia,

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his mother was on the way
to see his father,

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who was serving in the Red Army
in the Far East,

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and Rudolf was then
born on the train,

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which I always saw as symbolic
of his sort of nomadic life

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that he then went on to do.

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-Yeah. Oh, yes.
He was born on a train, right?

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And then had a hard upbringing,
a difficult family life.

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And I think his father
didn't want him to dance.

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And he still made it
through all of that,

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you know, from, you know --

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You say in America
"from zero to hero."

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You know, the dream
to come from poverty

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and to become a worldwide icon.

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-The ballet dancing legend
Rudolf Nureyev

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sought asylum in France
from Soviet Russia

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on this day in 1961.

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He believed that if he returned
home from a trip to Paris

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with the Kirov Company,
he'd be imprisoned by the KGB.

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Nureyev's private accounts
of the events,

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as well as those of
many of his close friends,

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tell that he stayed in the West
due to consequences

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of living in Soviet Russia
and being gay.

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So on the 17th of June, 1961,
at the Paris Airport,

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Rudolf Nureyev defected.

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-When they started
working together,

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they discovered a great rapport,

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and Margot realized
that she could learn from him

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and he could learn from her,
so there was this sort of

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symbiotic thing they had going.

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-What most inspires me
about this couple

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is the importancy
of partnership.

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I always find

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that it's much more important
than the solos.

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It's the partnership.
That's what makes the story.

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-Nureyev was adoring
Margot Fonteyn.

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When I see the picture,
I understand why.

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It's just such a beauty.

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-He definitely broke the mold
of the male dancer --

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stands behind the ballerina and
always lifts her up in the air.

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You know? Just the crane.
Yeah. The lifting machine.

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He really put himself --
not in front of the ballerina,

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but let's say
beside the ballerina.

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-I find him incredibly handsome.

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I mean, the bones

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and that Tatar,
slightly Mongolian look.

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And he had a scar.

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I asked him,
"Where did you get that scar?"

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He said, A big dog!"
[ Laughs ]

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-If a dancer wasn't performing
110 percent,

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he would get mad
and, you know,

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could fling a dancer,
a ballerina to the floor

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or drag someone around
by her necklace or --

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You know,
he could get very violent.

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-[Shouting]

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-In those big classical ballets,
you need --

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you need the extravaganza,
you need...

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the glitter.

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And there is a bad guy
and he's controlling the Swan

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and, yes, he wants to do
something bad to the Prince.

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That's why he turns
the White Swan

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into the Black Swan,

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and the Black Swan
deceives the prince.

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-What, to me, is most special
about the Vienna production

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is seeing Nureyev
at his greatest.

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-His use of the music with
the movement he put together,

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it fits very well together.

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I mean, I think there
you can tell that it's a man

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that -- that knows about music.

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-One of his innovations
in the Vienna "Swan Lake"

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is having the male dancer
and the ballerina

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dance side by side
the same steps,

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a bit like Fred Astaire
and Ginger Rogers.

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-I would even say
that this is his life.

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This is probably his real life,
that --

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His place of life is the stage

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and the ballet is the story.

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[ Indistinct shouting ]

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-There would be someone
like Jackie Kennedy,

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who would send an aeroplane
to fetch him for tea --

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or Marlene Dietrich.

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People were just
completely smitten by him.

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-From the eyes of me
as a choreographer today,

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not just as a dancer,

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I have to say
that a lot of the scenes

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are very well-constructed.

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There's just lots of scenes
with a lot of people,

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and they're
very well-constructed.

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They're not messy.

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-It's amazing. It's, uh...

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such an inspiration.

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-And it's perfect.

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-He was having his own mind
and saying what he wants

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and doing what he thinks.

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And you're not usually allowed
to do that in the ballet world.

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-He makes it
a very sort of heartfelt,

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quite tormented story

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about someone pulled into
between romantic love and lust,

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which Nureyev was going through
at that point

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because he was desperately
in love

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with the male dancer Erik Bruhn,

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but he had this wandering,
philandering side

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that he couldn't stop.

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And I think that must have
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with that dual character

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of the White Swan
and the Black Swan.

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-He just left an imprint
on the dance world.

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And it will never die.
It will always be there.

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-He never will be forgotten.

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-To find out more about this

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and other "Great Performances"
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