A viral video from St. Petersburg shows hundreds of Russians publicly singing a forbidden anti-war song in a rare and risky ...

Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov died on Saturday after falling from the fifth floor of a building. The preliminary cause of death was labeled as an accident, with Russian authorities launching ...

Vladimir Shklyarov performing in 2008: the Telegraph called him ‘heavenly, one of those dancers who seems to regard the stage as a place he instinctively belongs’ - eyevine Vladimir Shklyarov, who has ...

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 ...

Time was, if big-time dance came to town from New York or Europe, they'd play San Francisco's Opera House: the Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem.

The Grand Kyiv Ballet’s touring U.S. company practiced at Beachfront Dance School in Gary before its Wednesday performance of “Swan Lake.” ...

When Olga Smirnova last March quit Moscow's famed Bolshoi Ballet in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the prima ballerina's decision shook the ballet world. Russian dance critic Leila ...

South African ballet dancers in the Russian Ballet Ensemble perform The Nutcracker in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 10. Ihsaan Haffejee / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Ukraine is calling ...

April 1, 2007 — -- With dancers averaging 220 pounds and a combined weight of two tons, the Big Ballet Company is adding new weight -- literally -- to Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake." The plus-sized ...