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 ...
During the 1991 August Coup in Russia, the ballet Swan Lake played on a loop on state TV. The unusual broadcast alerted Soviet citizens that something was catastrophically wrong in Moscow. On Friday a ...
On a quiet evening inNairobi, a cultural moment unfolded that marked a new chapter in relationsbetween Russia and Kenya.For the first time, aRussian ballet troupe performed on a Kenyan stage, and the ...
When Olga Smirnova last 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 ...
Forced to flee his home, Stoianov later found himself in France attempting to create art and make a living. That’s where he helped found the Grand Kyiv Ballet, an organization meant to uplift ...
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 ...
The Park Theatre will present the high-definition filmed production of Boris Eifman's ballet interpretation of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov on Wednesday, September 18 at 1:30pm. The Brothers ...