The next Nureyev?

The career of ballet dancer Isaac Hernandez seems to be taking off into the stratosphere. 

Several British dailies last week ran feature articles on the Guadalajara native, as the English National Ballet principal prepared to take on the lead role in “Romeo and Juliet,” choreographed and made famous by Rudolf Nureyev in 1977. 

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Now, ballet critics wonder, could Hernandez be the late Russian ballet icon’s heir apparent?