MOSCOW (AP) — Makhar Vaziev’s workday begins before he sets foot inside his office in Moscow’s famed Bolshoi Theater. As he makes his way past the vast columns of the main building, the ballet ...
The Bolshoi Ballet has endured one of the most tumultuous years in its centuries-long history, racked by rivalries, jealousy and a horrible acid attack on its artistic director, Sergei Filin. Now, the ...
Russians remember Yuri Grigorovich, a choreographer who was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for three decades. He died May 19 aged 98. Yuri Grigorovich has died. He was a towering figure in ...
Dedicated to Ukraine, Alexei Ratmansky’s evening-length ballet “The Art of the Fugue” is both dispassionately unsentimental and profoundly moving. By Roslyn Sulcas He drew on Russian literature for ...