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He was born Feb. 9, 1985, in Leningrad and was a graduate of the distinguished Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, whose notable male alumni also include Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev.

As a ballet student, she was selected to dance in Rudolf Nureyev's production of Sleeping Beauty in 1975 with the London Festival Ballet.

“With David, what you see is what you get,” said the former ballerina Sylvie Guillem, who spent almost a month in Melbourne earlier this year, coaching Rudolf Nureyev’s “Don Quixote.”

Nureyev then made a dash towards two French police and declared that he wished to remain in the West.

Lynn Seymour, a ballerina from Wainwright, Alberta, who pushed back against stuffiness in ballet and who partnered with Nureyev, Baryshnikov and others, has died at 83.