MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education. Around ...

MOSCOW, June 1 (Reuters) - Rachel Armstrong will take a leap towards her dream of becoming one of the world’s top ballet dancers when she graduates from Russia’s renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy this ...

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 ...

Russians remember Yuri Grigorovich, a choreographer who was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for three decades. He died May 19 aged 98. Yuri Grigorovich has died. He was a towering figure in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A view of the empty hall of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on May 15, 2020, during a strict lockdown in Russia to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. (Photo by YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via ...

A Russian ballet star in the Bolshoi theater has confessed to throwing sulfuric acid in the face of the company’s artistic director. To learn more about the people involve and the theories surrounding ...

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 ...

Several weeks ago, the Starz cable network unveiled “Flesh and Bone,” a miniseries about the travails of a fictional ballet dancer in a company rife with sexual manipulation, body shaming, and ...