MOSCOW (AP) — On the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, the dancers were all elegance and grace, leaping through the air and lifting their partners with seemingly little effort. But up close in a rehearsal ...

Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet has been a favorite of Russian audiences ever since it was premiered at Leningrad’s Kirov Theater in 1940. It has plenty of pageantry, a familiar, heart-wrenching ...

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For decades now, Russians have known the drill. When there's bad news brewing, such as the death of a leader, or a convulsive event, such as the Chernobyl disaster, State TV switches its programming ...

Photo: Dong Feng/GT The Embassy of the Russian Federation in China and the Russian National Ballet "Kostroma" jointly staged ...

Yuri Grigorovich has died. He was a towering figure in the field of dance as the Soviet Russian choreographer who ran Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre during the last three decades of the U.S.S.R. The ballet ...

If music lives on records, why does ballet die on film? Why has cinema in two-thirds of a century produced only one picture, The Red Shoes, in which the marriage of camera and choreography did not ...