The former Bolshoi star, the most high-profile dancer to leave Russia, is making a career at the Dutch National Ballet, where she is refining her intensity. By Laura Cappelle Trained at the Bolshoi, ...

MOSCOW — This performance doesn’t require a red-curtain reveal. It begins in a Moscow dining room. Ballet dancer Ivan Vasiliev, a veteran of stages including the Bolshoi, is dressed in a T-shirt and ...

Yuri Grigorovich at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1985 during a Bolshoi tour - Robert Pearce/Fairfax Media via Getty Images Yuri Grigorovich, the Russian choreographer, who has died aged 98, was ...

"Bolshoi Confidential" author Simon Morrison discusses the Russian ballet's 241-year history of inspiring art despite frequent turmoil. Bolshoi Ballet Has 'Recovered' After Acid Attack Princeton ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Nutcracker is one of the greatest classics of the ballet cannon, based on ...

Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961 and Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1974 — both great dancers who fled the Soviet Union for freedom and better opportunities. The world has changed much since then, ...

NORTHVILLE (WWJ)--It's a dream come true for a local teen who will get the opportunity to travel to Russia to learn dance from one of the most famous ballet companies in the world. Anna Pearson of ...

MOSCOW -- Bolshoi dancer Ekaterina Krysanova, 21, performs a nearly 180-degree arabesque, her body stretched like hot taffy. Her movement is stunning, yet this rehearsal is a bit of a struggle. She ...

When this joyous triptych premiered, prominent American theater critic Clive Barnes famously said: “Jewels is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner at Tiffany’s.” The story of its creation was actually ...

The performing arts industry has been hard-hit by the pandemic. MOSCOW -- In a rare sight in the pandemic era, the grandiose auditorium of the Bolshoi in Moscow started filling up with people arriving ...

The Bolshoi, Russia's prestigious ballet company most recently known as the site of a horrendous acid attack, is now being slammed by one of its former ballerinas as a "brothel," where dancers were ...

Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making ballet accessible to people of all classes. By Anna Kisselgoff After the invasion of Ukraine, Ratmansky ...