DMITRI GRUZDYEV: "Looking at the pictures I see some familiar things from my training - the open shoulders, standing tall, and all the positions are big - 'bolshoi' means grand. But I came from the ...

For two weeks Moscow’s world-famed Bolshoi Theater Ballet—scheduled to make its first full-scale appearance outside the Soviet Union—had kept London’s ballet fans on tenterhooks. Eighty tons 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rachel Armstrong will take a leap towards her dream of becoming one of the world's top ballet dancers when she graduates from Russia's renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy this month.