With the possible exception of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet is the most extravagantly praised and least frequently viewed wonder of the world. The company’s triumphant ...
Ratmansky’s explosive and energetic Revolutionary-era revival of Vasily Vainonen ’s “ The Flames of Paris ” ignites the Bolshoi’s stage on March 4, and a chilling, yet luminous performance of one of ...
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 ...
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As the most fabled of a long procession of Hurok-sponsored dance companies to reach the U.S., the Bolshoi Ballet was received in 1959 with curiosity and great gusts of cold-war camaraderie. Last week ...
This picture taken on April 7, 2011 shows artistic director of the Bolshoi theatre Sergei Filini speaking to media at the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow. — AFP Photo MOSCOW: The artistic director of the ...
Natalia Bessmertnova, 66, a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet for more three decades, died Feb. 19 at a Moscow hospital. Russian media reported that she had kidney trouble. Ms. Bessmertnova danced ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Principal dancer Artem Ovcharenko seems to defy gravity as he glides through the air, then lands silently with a flourish of his arm during a rehearsal at Russia's revered Bolshoi ...
Yuri Grigorovich has died. The choreographer, who shaped the ballet of the famous Bolshoi Theater in Moscow for decades, has passed away at the age of 98, according to Russian media and the State ...
Anyone who doubts that the Bolshoi Ballet’s American summer tour had as much to do with politics and hype as it did with Art had only to peruse the opening paragraph of the “Greeting” from Bruce ...
Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making ballet accessible to people of all classes. By Anna Kisselgoff After the invasion of Ukraine, Ratmansky ...