Rudolf Nureyev

Julie Kavanagh trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet School, and is the author of Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton . She has worked as ballet critic of The Spectator ; Arts Editor of Harpers & Queen ; and London Editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker . She is married to the ex-Royal Ballet dancer, now dance film maker, Ross MacGibbon, and has two sons.