For decades now, Russians have known the drill. When there's bad news brewing, such as the death of a leader, or a convulsive event, such as the Chernobyl disaster, State TV switches its programming ...

Creative imagination at its most disciplined and visceral will be on high-flying display on a Costa Mesa stage Saturday night, Nov. 12 as “Reunited in Dance” brings together 18 dancers from the ...

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During the 1991 August Coup in Russia, the ballet Swan Lake played on a loop on state TV. The unusual broadcast alerted Soviet citizens that something was catastrophically wrong in Moscow. On Friday a ...

Ballet dancers from Russia and Ukraine affected by the war come together during rehearsal for the “Reunited In Dance” performance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. REUTERS/Mike ...

Joy Womack dances during rehearsal at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California - Copyright AFP Natalia KOLESNIKOVA Joy Womack dances during ...

Sergei Polunin courted controversy when he backed Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, and gained Russian citizenship in 2019 - Andrew Crowley for The Telegraph Sergei Polunin, a former star at London’s ...

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Russia's famed Bolshoi Theater will host the Paris Opera Ballet on Friday for the first time since the fall of communism, producing four neo-classical works from the second ...

The national company has a new leader, Jurgita Dronina, and a desire to raise its profile to a troupe that can rank among ...