REAL TIME balance. Incredible.

Rudolf Nureyev and Merle Park execute a stunning partner balance in perfect form. No edits were made to the speed of this clip. This is in real time. Rudolf Nureyev, in full Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev, was born on March 17, 1938, Irkutsk, Russia, . He died January 6, 1993 in Paris, France. He is buried in the Cimetière de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France. Nureyev was a Soviet-born ballet dancer whose suspended leaps and lightning quick turns were often compared to Vaslav Nijinsky’s legendary feats. He was a flamboyant performer and a charismatic celebrity who revived the prominence of male ballet roles and significantly widened the audience for ballet. Nureyev, who was of Tatar descent, spent his youth in Ufa, the capital of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now Bashkortostan republic, Russia). He began his ballet studies at age 11, left school at 15, and supported himself by dancing. At 17 he entered the Lenin