Charles Jude

In January 2006, the Prague International Ballet hosted the first-ever Prague International Ballet Gala at the Prague State Opera. Experience the performances from that inaugural year, starring Charles Jude, Daniil Simkin, Igor Zelensky, Delphine Baey, and Polina Semionova, among others.

Scenes from the ballet Petrushka, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet at the National Opera Theatre.

Despite his HIV-positive diagnosis in the early 1980s, Russian-born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev continued to dance and work as the director of the Paris Opera, as chronicled in this documentary that focuses on Nureyev's final years. Through interviews with colleagues and friends and archival footage of his performances, the film touches on the dancer's early years, his success and his later years as he struggled to continue dancing.