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 ...

The once archetypal image of the Russian ballerina—silent, compliant, and delicate, regardless of national celebrity status—is distorting in real time. On Wednesday, the National Opera Ballet ...

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 ...

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In a statement published Wednesday, the Dutch National Ballet said Smirnova had been “welcomed with open arms.” She is expected to make her debut there with its staging of “Raymonda,” which premieres ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education. Around ...

Yuri Grigorovich at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1985 during a Bolshoi tour - Robert Pearce/Fairfax Media via Getty Images Yuri Grigorovich, the Russian choreographer, who has died aged 98, was ...

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 ...