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 ...

Creative imagination at its most disciplined and visceral will be on high-flying display on a Costa Mesa stage Saturday night, Nov. 12 as “Reunited in Dance” brings together 18 dancers from the ...

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When Olga Smirnova in March quit Moscow's famed Bolshoi Ballet in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the prima ballerina's decision shook the ballet world. Russian dance critic Leila Guchmazova ...

A Ukrainian ballerina who fled the war in her homeland and a Russian ballerina who quit the Bolshoi Ballet over the Russian invasion, rehearsed on a stage in Naples for a sold-out benefit performance ...

Ballet dancers from Russia and Ukraine affected by the war come together during rehearsal for the “Reunited In Dance” performance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. REUTERS/Mike ...

Time was, if big-time dance came to town from New York or Europe, they'd play San Francisco's Opera House: the Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem.

One of Russia’s most famous ballet dancers mysteriously fell to his death from the fifth floor of a building at St. Petersburg on Saturday, just days before he was due to have major surgery. Vladimir ...

(Reuters) -Russian ballet maestro Yuri Grigorovich, considered one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century, has died at the age of 98, the Bolshoi Theatre said on Monday. Grigorovich, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's famed Bolshoi Theater hosts the Paris Opera Ballet on Friday for the first time since the fall of communism, producing four neo-classical works from the second half of the ...