“A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?” — Rudolf Nureyev

“A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?” — Rudolf Nureyev

Joan Acocella, dance critic for The New Yorker: Almost everyone who describes Nureyev eventually compares him to an animal. They bore you to death with this, but it was true. Rudolf Nureyev’s solo debut on American TV, 1963 All quotes below come from Nureyev, by Julie Kavanagh, a wonderful biography. But first: Here was MY introduction to Nureyev. Excerpt from Kavanagh’s book: We have to remember what Rudolf looked like back then on a staid B…