In Ukraine and Russia, where ballet is centrally important to culture, dancers have had their worlds upended by the Russian invasion.

Alexei Ratmansky, one of the world’s most esteemed ballet choreographers, used to have a master plan. “I was going to go through all of the major Russian music pieces, and stage them all,” he says.

Foreign ballet dancers say the war is bound to take Russian ballet back to the isolation of the Soviet era.

TUCSON (KVOA) - At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night at the Fox Theater in downtown Tucson, the company Russian Ballet Theatre performed Swan Lake, one of the most famous ballets in the world, written and ...

Hattiesburg teen Alexei Orohovsky was accepted as a soloist at one of the world's most prestigious ballet companies -- the ...

It may be a country that gave rise to Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, but Canada's top ballet dancers wowed a Moscow audience as it opened its first-ever tour of Russia with a ...

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Liz Zabel/The Gazette A Pointe School of Dance dancer rehearses at the Pointe's studio in Cedar Rapids on Nov. 12, 2016 for the Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker.

The production made its world premiere in St. Petersburg in September 2024; now the ballet will make its Israeli debut at the ...

Slumped quietly under a barre in San Francisco Ballet's studios, Artem Yachmennikov exudes a certain intensity as he watches Elena Kazakova rehearse for Helgi Tomasson's "Nutcracker," which opens ...

Ballet dancers Adrian Blake Mitchell and Andrea Lassakova moved to Russia years ago to chase their dream of performing with the best in a country where people live ...