Yuri Grigorovich, the artistic director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, whose robust choreography helped modernize the troupe’s repertoire in the 1960s but who eventually opened ...

MOSCOW A masked assailant threw acid at the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet in an attack that colleagues said Friday could be in reprisal for his selection of dancers in starring roles at the ...

Hallberg, the former Ballet Theater star, is now the artistic director of the Australian Ballet, which is bringing “Oscar,” about Oscar Wilde, to City Center. By Roslyn Sulcas and Heather Sten ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — An acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet has shone the spotlight on the fierce “Black Swan” -like competition for starring roles at the famed Russian dance company.

Russia's Bolshoi Theatre is reeling after two of the most celebrated dancers in world ballet announced they were quitting the company for a lesser-known troupe. Ivan Vasiliev and Natalya Osipova, a ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education. Around ...