Valery Bogokina Myers, standing at left, watches dancers take part in a master class she taught recently at Dance Theatre of Wilkes-Barre. Costumed dancers pose with choreographer and teacher Valery ...

In 1999, the Kirov greeted the new millennium by reviving a very old ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. It had come into the world in 1890, when the Kirov was called the Imperial Ballet and St. Petersburg, ...

There is no psychodrama, no juiced-up plot, no speck of contemporary pollutant in the Kirov Ballet's "Swan Lake," other than its sun-drenched Hollywood ending. This production is so marvelously pure ...

KALAMAZOO--Western Michigan University's Partners in Dance is sponsoring a trip to see the Kirov Ballet perform "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Detroit Opera House Saturday, Oct. 22. Registration and ...

The recent cancellation of Dance Theater of Harlem's January performances at the Kennedy Center will result in a midsummer boon for ballet lovers. The center announced yesterday that the ...

Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today. By Javier C. Hernández “It’s jeweler’s work,” ...

DMITRI GRUZDYEV: "Looking at the pictures I see some familiar things from my training - the open shoulders, standing tall, and all the positions are big - 'bolshoi' means grand. But I came from the ...

Among the world’s great classical-dance companies, Leningrad’s Kirov preserves with museum-like fidelity the ballet traditions of Imperial Russia. The New York City Ballet dazzles the eye with its ...

Alla Osipenko, a star of the Soviet-era Kirov Ballet and one of the most expressive ballerinas of her generation who was blocked from major international tours at the peak of her career after her free ...