This is not just a foot. This is Nureyev's foot. This moving picture is the true expression of his hard work, amazing determination and impressive technique.
Photo taken by René Burri in Zurich in 1981 - Manfred ballet.
Nureyev was passionate about this subject, reading everything he could find about Byron’s life. He identified of course to a certain extent with the poet, accursed Romantic, stranger in the world. “My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, made me a stranger”
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