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Rudolf Nureyev established the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation in 1975. It was then called The Ballet Promotion Foundation; its goals were to invest and manage the Foundation's endowment fund and any other assets, and to distribute grants to the Foundation's beneficiaries from investment income. The Foundation was also to be concerned with the promotion of ballet, whether through the support of individual dancers or companies and performances. He was careful to emphasise that all activities were to be subject to the restraints of the Foundation's income. In 1994 the Foundation was renamed The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation. In essence its objects remained as before, with some expanded and defined through instructions from Rudolf Nureyev prior to his death.

Rudolf Nureyev was always keen to help young and talented dancers. He asked that money should be provided to assist promising dancers living in the territory previously referred to as the Soviet Union, to study ballet in the West for one year. This was on the understanding that they returned home at the end of the study year to contribute to the development of dance in their own country.

Medical, scientific and humanitarian causes are listed as projects that he was keen should be supported. There was also the request that, subject to the availability of money and without incurring prohibitive expenditure, a museum, gallery or exhibition should be established to perpetuate his memory and to promote the discipline of dance, music and art, to which he had devoted his life.

http://www.nureyev.org/

After nearly 30 years in business, International Dance Supplies has become the UK’s largest wholesale supplier of dancewear products operating from its own purpose-built premises in Newton Abbot. Harlequin is still manufacturing but all sales are now through IDS. Custom comes from not only the UK but other countries within Europe and also Australia, Singapore and the Cayman Islands.

IDS aims to provide everything dance teachers and their pupils require for everyday class work through to large scale recitals and shows. Most of the many thousands of products in the colour catalogue are available from stock and are despatched on the same day the order is received.