Nureyev: Dance and Sex

He was so open, and wanted to communicate, to connect. He said: "If you are a poet and wish to be powerful and to live for ever in the memory of men, strike them to the heart with the melodious creations of your imagination, temper your thought upon the flame of passion."

The erotic charge of the eastern tales, their dark subversiveness, which aroused both mass adulation and secret fantasies, created a similar impact to the dancer's own Corsair; the description of Byron as "a wild mountain colt" is a fitting image of the young star. But to Nureyev, the most deeply felt link of all was the sense of alienation, "the feeling of belonging to no country"
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