Nureyev

"The quality of greatness in a dancer is as indefinable as beauty," Clive Barnes states. In his comprehensive account of Rudolf Nureyev's artistic career in the West, the author further adds: "If one person could be called the world's greatest dancer it would just have to be Rudolf Nureyev." Mr. Barnes, foremost dance and drama critic, has followed the meteoric development of Mr. Nureyev's career over several continents from the very first days of his defection on June 17, 1961. Nureyev's spec…