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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 ...

Russian prima ballerina Olga Smirnova has departed her home country to pursue a dance career in the Netherlands following her public denouncement of the Russia-Ukraine war. The world-famous classical ...

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 ...

Prima ballerina Olga Smirnova will leave Moscow's Bolshoi ballet and Russia in protest of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. She told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about her experience with the Bolshoi in 2018. I ...

One of the stars of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, Olga Smirnova, has quit the company over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and will instead dance for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. The move comes ...

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