Sergeant Oleksandr Dushakov, a ballet dancer, is fighting against the Russian invasion. He says training and his feel for the forest are helping him survive. He says his experience as a dancer has ...

The Russian National Ballet Theatre, founded in Moscow during the transitional period of Perestroika in the late 1980s, performs Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Napa Valley Opera House. At a time when many ...

Since she was 10 years old, Irina Vassileni-Uralsky knew she wanted to be a professional ballet dancer. “I knew, I always knew,” she said, shaking her head with a knowing smile. She holds out a ...

A Russian-affiliated ballet company misrepresented itself as a Ukrainian cultural group to tour Sweden in 2023 and 2024, deceiving audiences and potentially violating European Union sanctions. The ...

Sergei Polunin courted controversy when he backed Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, and gained Russian citizenship in 2019 - Andrew Crowley for The Telegraph Sergei Polunin, a former star at London’s ...

(Reuters) -Russian ballet maestro Yuri Grigorovich, considered one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century, has died at the age of 98, the Bolshoi Theatre said on Monday. Grigorovich, ...

The national company has a new leader, Jurgita Dronina, and a desire to raise its profile to a troupe that can rank among ...

Artistic director of Bolshoi Ballet from 1964-1995 Ballet maestro remembered as 'legendary figure' Famed for male roles in ballets such as Spartacus Resigned in 1995 as Bolshoi struggled after Soviet ...