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Since the mid-1990s, Russia's most renowned ballet troupe, the Bolshoi, has run into serious trouble. Infighting among the artistic and administrative management and a string of directors has damaged ...

Dedicated to Ukraine, Alexei Ratmansky’s evening-length ballet “The Art of the Fugue” is both dispassionately unsentimental and profoundly moving. By Roslyn Sulcas He drew on Russian literature for ...

One of the stars of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, Olga Smirnova, has quit the company over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and will instead dance for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. The move comes ...

The Bolshoi Ballet opens its doors to audiences in cinemas worldwide for the 11th consecutive season. Beginning October 2020, ballet lovers and dance newcomers alike will have the opportunity to ...

On the evening of Feb. 6, the Russian ballerina Anzhelina Vorontsova had to take another trip abroad — this time to Italy — for some performances she wished she had been able to decline. Winsome as a ...

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 ...

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 ...