In 1999, the Kirov greeted the new millennium by reviving a very old ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. It had come into the world in 1890, when the Kirov was called the Imperial Ballet and St. Petersburg, ...
Valery Bogokina Myers, standing at left, watches dancers take part in a master class she taught recently at Dance Theatre of Wilkes-Barre. Costumed dancers pose with choreographer and teacher Valery ...
San Francisco — Diana VISHNEVA is tired. The glamorous principal ballerina of Russia’s Kirov Ballet has just flown in from Finland, where she danced Juliet opposite the Romeo of international star ...
There is no psychodrama, no juiced-up plot, no speck of contemporary pollutant in the Kirov Ballet's "Swan Lake," other than its sun-drenched Hollywood ending. This production is so marvelously pure ...
Every great ballet is bigger than its stars, big enough to put an entire company to the test. But the leads do define its emotional temperature -- and their technical excellence should heighten that ...
KALAMAZOO--Western Michigan University's Partners in Dance is sponsoring a trip to see the Kirov Ballet perform "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Detroit Opera House Saturday, Oct. 22. Registration and ...
Let 100 navels wink in the spotlights, let every forehead bear a spangle bindi, shake out the togas and haul the stuffed tiger out of the attic. The Kirov Ballet's "La Bayadère" may have a 1950s ...
Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today. By Javier C. Hernández “It’s jeweler’s work,” ...