Ex. 1 Read the text. Rudolf Nureyev, the male dancer who revolutionized the form, would have been 75 years old this year

Rudolf Nureyev, the male dancer who revolutionized the form, would have been 75 years old this year. In honor of the anniversary, a special section at the Moscow International Film Festival – including a new documentary – and an exhibition at Dom Nashchokina look at his acclaimed work and tempestuous personality.

Born in a train car on the Trans-Siberian Railroad in 1938, Nureyev grew up near Ufa before joining Leningrad’s renowned Kirov Ballet. During a foreign tour in Paris in 1961, he defected to the West, prompting Nikita Khrushchev to issue a personal order to have the dancer assassinated. After a brilliant career with Paris’s Opera Ballet, Nureyev died of AIDS in 1993 at age 55.

The centerpiece of the exhibition “Rudolf Nureyev: A Life in Photographs” is a series of color shots that capture the dancer’s sumptuously appointed apartments in Paris and New York.

An ardent collector, Nureyev filled his rooms with antique furniture and old musical instruments. In the photos, the walls are covered with nude oil paintings, gleaming icons and jewel-toned tapestries. Nureyev, then already sick with the disease that would claim his life, sits on an embroidered throne in period dress.

The exhibition also features oil portraits of the dancer by Andrew White Jr., as well as black and white photographs chronicling Nureyev’s life and career, from his sensational early performances at the Kirov to his years at the helm of the Paris Opera Ballet.

According to producer AlfiyaChebotaryova, the fact that Nureyev’s name was taboo in the Soviet Union after his defection to the West led to the dancer’s relative obscurity in Russia – even now, over two decades after the Soviet collapse.

Nureyev’s life will also serve as the basis for an upcoming French and British feature film focused on the dancer’s youth.

This week, the Moscow Film Festival is screening two other movies about Nureyev: “I Am a Dancer,” which follows the dancer’s technique from rehearsal to performance, and “Valentino,” a fantastical 1977 film that imagines Nureyev as amorous silent screen star Rudolph Valentino.

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