Orleans. Retirement In 1987 Jelko Yuresha retired from dancing at age 50 due to longtime pain from a back injury. He took up painting, costume and set design, writing, and collecting art. Yuresha and Wright relocated to New York in 1983 and to a second home in Switzerland in 1989. As a writer Yuresha has contributed to Dancing Times, Ballet Today UK, The Dance Chronicle USA, London Evening Standard, and other publications. The papers of Jelko Yuresha and Belinda Wright were donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library in 2007. This includes correspondence, programs, articles, costume and set designs, sketches, and photographs. His correspondence is also included in Chicago’s Newberry Research Library Ann Barzel Papers. Yuresha has donated the couple’s costumes and original artwork to the Zagreb Museum of Arts and Crafts. References Further reading 1937 births 2020 deaths Dancers from Zagreb Male ballet dancers English National Ballet Dancers of The Royal Ballet British male ballet dancers Croatian male ballet dancers Yugoslav emigrants to the United Kingdom