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, ...

In a statement published Wednesday, the Dutch National Ballet said Smirnova had been “welcomed with open arms.” She is expected to make her debut there with its staging of “Raymonda,” which premieres ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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, ...

(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 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 ...

A state news agency reports the Russian president asked a loyalist conductor to consider merging Moscow’s Bolshoi and its St. Petersburg rival Ten days after a star ballerina’s departure from the ...

The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow has dropped a ballet about Russian dance legend Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire after a law on so-called "gay propaganda" was tightened. Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin ...

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 ...

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 ...