MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education. Around ...

Yuri Grigorovich at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1985 during a Bolshoi tour - Robert Pearce/Fairfax Media via Getty Images Yuri Grigorovich, the Russian choreographer, who has died aged 98, was ...

MOSCOW – Among the dozen 15-year-old girls in lavender leotards in Tatyana Galtseva’s class at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, one is different. And it’s not just because of her long, swan-like neck. She ...

MAKING IT PERFECT: The first American female Bolshoi ballerina Joy Womack, puts on her hand-made tiara before practicing the Grand das de Deux with her dance partner Evan Swenson in preparation for ...

Klein Collins High School junior Kyra Benesh's talent, skill and spirit earned her a place among 16 dancers chosen for a summer training program in Moscow with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Benesh will ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Among the dozen 15-year-old girls in lavender leotards in Tatyana Galtseva’s class at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, one is different. And it’s not just because of her long, swan-like neck.

A 20-year-old man from Widnes in the UK county of Cheshire has passed his final dance exam at the world famous Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Daniel Dolan now hopes to join one of the big Russian ...

A passionate student of ballet, Taylor Fikes, 17, of Bowie said she has always wanted to visit the world-famous Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where many great dancers ...

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 ...