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Nureyev dancing at the Kirov Theatre
“There was simply from this quite early age the awareness
that the only thing I wanted was to dance.”
Rudolf Nureyev
At fifteen he began serving as an extra in productions at the opera house; this brought him some income and allowed him to take class with the ballet company.
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He progressed to dancing in the corps de ballet, and when a ten-day tour was made to Moscow he got on it by taking over a folk-dance solo from an injured dancer. He had never learned it, and had no time for rehearsal, so this was the first occasion when he benefited from his astonishing memory for dances he had merely watched.
Later this was to make possible many of his productions. In Moscow he injured his toes so could not appear, but recovered enough to audition for the Bolshoi ballet school, and was accepted.Rudolf Nureyev decided however to persevere trying for the Leningrad school : not only was it said to be better but it was residential, solving the