The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation medical website

The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation medical website is dedicated to dancers and the medical and health professionals who care for dancers. The website provides access to recent and archived articles from leading professionals in the field, in addition to listing up-to-date research and conference proceedings, resources and information and links to international specialist healthcare provision. Initially developed in 2001 by Nureyev’s physician, Dr Michel Canesi, this resource has recently been relaunched to make dance medicine information more accessible for performers. As the site develops, you’ll be able to find tips for staying healthy, news about novel approaches to treating dance injuries and videos in which medical professionals answer frequently asked dance science questions. Dancers everywhere will be able to benefit from the website’s service. The website also has a growing International Dance Healthcare Directory to provide a listing of health professionals with experience in treating dancers, which can be searched by location, name, dance style and in which treatment they specialise. As a result, the website will provide links to existing national listings such as Dance UK’s Medical Practitioners Directory. Nureyev established the Foundation in 1975 as ‘The Ballet Promotion Foundation’, aiming to invest and manage the Foundation’s endowment fund and to distribute grants to beneficiaries. The Foundation also served to promote ballet through the support of individual dancers, or companies, and performances. The Foundation received its current name in 1994 and remained keen to help young and talented dancers through their studies and in the development of dance as a whole. In addition to this, the Foundation was renowned for supporting medical, scientific and humanitarian projects.