MOSCOW (AP) — Just a few weeks into his job, the new artistic director at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater is making only one big promise — to keep doing what he says Russia does best — classical ballet. But ...

MOSCOW — Makhar Vaziev’s workday begins before he sets foot inside his office in Moscow’s famed Bolshoi Theater. As he makes his way past the vast columns of the main building, the ballet director ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> The Bolshoi Ballet is one of the world’s legendary ballet companies – arguably, the greatest classical ballet company on earth. It tours extensively but has not made an appearance ...

It's been more than two years since behind-the-curtain intrigue at Russia's Bolshoi Ballet escalated into violence. In that time the victim has come a long way toward healing. The story now from Tracy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former principal dancers at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Dmitri and Jennifer Kulev moved to California and opened Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy in 2006. Dmitri was originally trained and ...

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