The Kennedy Center’s Opera House stage is brimming with the poise and beauty of the celebrated Mariinsky Ballet dancing their classic, full-length production of “Giselle” Thursday through Sunday. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Spirits, dreams, swans and an Arabian tale. These subjects do not seem out of place when it comes to the subjects of ballet but more than 100 years ago, when ...

Celebrate the holiday season with an exciting tradition - the Mariinsky Theatre's The Nutcracker Ballet. SpectiCast, More2Screen and EuroArts Music bring the magic of Tchaikovsky's beloved holiday ...

In most American cities, on most weekends of the year, you will likely find a large number of little girls fidgeting in pastel leotards, waiting for their chance to sway and twirl across wide open ...

More than 70 Russian dancers and musicians of the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra came to Berkeley’s Cal Performances this week with an often mesmerizing and beautiful, yet occasionally stilted and ...

He drew on Russian literature for his stage works and was an eager experimenter, inspired by folk tales, religious mysticism and melodrama. By Jonathan Kandell Among the 20th century’s most ...

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It’s as though both of Russia’s major ballet companies have been caught in the unyielding grip of a polar vortex. Bitter fissures have cracked through their elegant facades: Valery Gergiev, general ...