Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews. By Trip Gabriel Among the ...

Of all the bizarre sights onstage as the Kirov Ballet performed "The Nutcracker" at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday night -- the prominently displayed animal carcasses, the costumes festooned with ...

In 1999, the Kirov greeted the new millennium by reviving a very old ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. It had come into the world in 1890, when the Kirov was called the Imperial Ballet and St. Petersburg, ...

The “Kingdom of the Shades,” Act III of Marius Petipa’s La Bayadère, offers one of ballet’s most resonant visions. Seeking his dead beloved in an opium dream, the faithless, guilt-ridden Solor ...

The Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is the kind of place where you can see Weird Al Yankovic or the Jamz Cheerleading Championship. But back in September, for two nights only, it was the Kirov ...

Veronika Part was already a star at the Kirov Ballet when she left Russia to join American Ballet Theatre in 2002. But over the last three years, Ms. Part, now 27, has become a greater artist than she ...

Valery Bogokina Myers, standing at left, watches dancers take part in a master class she taught recently at Dance Theatre of Wilkes-Barre. Costumed dancers pose with choreographer and teacher Valery ...

Full disclosure: I'm not much of a classical dance fan. I enjoy a sharply performed Robot, a good Pop-and-Lock, the occasional well-executed Worm. Por ejemplo: C'mon, who could argue with that? But ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today. By Javier C. Hernández “It’s jeweler’s work,” ...