Rudolf Nureyev And Zurich Ballet At The Auditorium Theater In Chicago In May, 1983 Editorial Photo

Renowned ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev acknowledges thunderous applause from a packed audience at the the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois on May 14, 1983. With the Zurich Ballet, he is performing a work which he choreographed, about Lord Byron's life and poetry. It is played with a score from Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. Nurevev, a Russian of Tatar descent, became a cause celebre when he became the first prominent artist to defect from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961. Nureyev had a rapier wit and is remembered for holding his own with skilled television interviewers such as Dick Cavett. Nureyev died in France from complications of AIDS on January 6, 1993 at the age of