Talk of Russian ballet and familiar classics like Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker come to mind instantly. So, it comes as a surprise that a 50-year-old Russian ballet company in ...

Russian ballerina Alisa Sveshnikova is tired, and no wonder. “I like the U.S., but we have so busy a schedule that we have no time to see points of interest,” she said by telephone from her Houston ...

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