a company of 60 refugee Ukrainian dancers who fled their home country after Moscow launched its invasion in February (Alexei Ratmansky, Choreographer) “The company was formed to give these dancers who ...

Russians have a reputation as authorities on classical ballet. That reputation has had a tendency to overshadow the more contemporary dance techniques attempted. But a new movement of Russian ...

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 ...

Dance has always been more than movement. It’s rebellion. It’s storytelling. It’s innovation wrapped in rhythm and grace.

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Decades before Cecil B. DeMille sent horse-drawn chariots thundering through the desert, the world’s most famous ballet choreographer created an epic version of Egypt for the stage, and paraded live ...

In 1905, the dancers of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg went on strike. Their demands: higher wages, a five-day workweek, training in how to apply theatrical makeup, the right to wear their own ...

“I tell you,” said New York City Ballet’s George Balanchine, “it’s fantastic. Between us—our company and Stravinsky—we may bring about a change here that will influence the entire future of ballet and ...

At the London Coliseum theatre, a cast of Ukrainian dancers rehearse a new production of "Giselle", as Russian choreographer and former Bolshoi Ballet director Alexei Ratmansky watches from the ...