the British critic Richard Buckle announced the arrival of the “pop dancer,” writing, “What the telly did for art, what Billy Graham did for religion, Nureyev has done for ballet.” ...

Each Christmas “we are one Nutcracker nearer death”, wrote critic Richard Buckle, and with three productions ... dolls and snowflakes, it’s a ballet seemingly designed for the cynical ...

"And Balanchine fell in love with the music at once and forever," wrote Richard Buckle in 1988's "George Balanchine: Ballet Master" (Random House). "Balanchine appeared to have worked with Mozart ...

Previous biographies — this is the first in-depth volume since Richard Buckle’s in 1979 — have ... areas of Diaghilev’s artistic work. Ballet was not Diaghilev’s first, second or third ...

In latter years, the ballet critic Richard Buckle was moved to comment that ''when it was a question of enthusing over a corpse'' the cry would go up ''Send for Buckle!''. For Dicky, as this ...

RICHARD BUCKLE, the ballet critic, author and exhibition organiser who has died aged 85, specialised in being outrageous - and succeeded so well that his considerable talents were often undervalued.

Richard Buckle was a ballet critic with a flair for notoriety; he eventually became famous as a writer, editor and biographer of Diaghilev and Nijinsky. Unfortunately for his talent and integrity ...