Less than three years ago, a Russian court convicted Bolshoi Ballet dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko of ordering a shocking acid attack against the Ballet's then-artistic director Sergei Filin. Now, ...

MOSCOW – Makhar Vaziev’s day 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 at the ...

The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia is known to be the pride of the nation. After the theater was built in the Mid 19th century, it quickly became a cultural institution and a global brand for the ...

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 ...

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