Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yuri Grigorovich at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1985 during a Bolshoi tour - Robert Pearce/Fairfax Media via Getty Images ...

Russians remember Yuri Grigorovich, a choreographer who was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for three decades. He died May 19 aged 98. Yuri Grigorovich has died. He was a towering figure in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Russian choreographer Grigorovich speaks during the State Prize awards ceremony marking the Day of Russia at the ...

On the evening of Feb. 6, the Russian ballerina Anzhelina Vorontsova had to take another trip abroad — this time to Italy — for some performances she wished she had been able to decline. Winsome as a ...

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 ...

MOSCOW -- Bolshoi dancer Ekaterina Krysanova, 21, performs a nearly 180-degree arabesque, her body stretched like hot taffy. Her movement is stunning, yet this rehearsal is a bit of a struggle. She ...

A Russian court convicted three men today for a January acid attack that nearly blinded the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin, bringing to a close a case that exposed the intricate, ugly ...

On The Boy from Kyiv by Marina Harss. Alexei Ratmansky had only just appeared on the New York dance scene in 2010 when the historian Jennifer Homans contended that ballet was a dying art form—with no ...

“The peerless Bolshoi Ballet is accessible to ballet fans of all ages, through cinema screenings in local communities across the U.S.,” said Julie Borchard-Young, co-President of BY Experience. “The ...

Artistic director of Bolshoi Ballet from 1964-1995 Ballet maestro remembered as 'legendary figure' Famed for male roles in ballets such as Spartacus Resigned in 1995 as Bolshoi struggled after Soviet ...