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 ...

MOSCOW A masked assailant threw acid at the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet in an attack that colleagues said Friday could be in reprisal for his selection of dancers in starring roles at the ...

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 ...

The language of ballet is one of dramatic gesture: In La Bayadère, after the beautiful temple dancer is bitten by a poisonous snake, she communicates her resignation to death by throwing her hands up ...

Moscow’s mighty Bolshoi Ballet, the brash and emotionally outsized one of Russia’stwo historic companies, inspired a déjà vu experience of bittersweet intensity with its return Thursday to the Dorothy ...

The world-famous Bolshoi Theatre in Russia dismissed criticism raised by American ballet dancer Misty Copeland about its use of performers in blackface. Copeland, who made history as the first black ...

In this week’s issue of the magazine, David Remnick has an article about the recent scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet: “In the days I spent talking with dancers, instructors, and administrators at the ...

This is the moment horrified performers frantically wave their hands to alert staff after an actor was crushed to death at Moscow's famous Bolshoi Theatre. Yevgeny Kulesh, 37, is thought to have been ...

A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced the man who ordered an attack on Bolshoi Theater artistic director Sergei Filin to six years in a penal colony. Former Bolshoi ballet soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, 29 ...