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. Russian ballet stars once ...

Aiken Civic Ballet dancer Sydney Maddox, 17, spent part of last summer and this summer in New York City for a dance intensive with instructors from the Bolshoi Ballet. This year, she took the ...

Each year across the United States, aspiring ballet dancers don their best tights to audition for a spot at the Bolshoi Ballet‘s yearlong trainee program in Moscow, Russia. Of the hundreds of dancers ...

The renowned Bolshoi Ballet kept local dancers en pointe Sunday at an Orange County audition, where more than 100 hopefuls threw their slippers in the ring for a chance to perform with the academy in ...

Among the dozen 15-year-old girls in lavender leotards in Tatyana Galtseva’s class at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, one is different. And it’s not just because of her long, swan-like neck. She is Harper ...

The Australasian Bolshoi Ballet Academy will open in Melbourne next year, to the benefit of dancers and audiences. The academy will be the only one in the world outside of Moscow training dancers in ...

GRANADA HILLS >> Fourteen-year-old dancer Sana Suzuki will soon pack her slippers for the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. The 9th-grade ballerina from Granada Hills Charter High School was just chosen to ...

MOSCOW, June 1 (Reuters) - Rachel Armstrong will take a leap towards her dream of becoming one of the world’s top ballet dancers when she graduates from Russia’s renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy this ...

Sofia Golovkina, 88, former ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet who directed the company’s academy, the Moscow Ballet School, for four decades, died Feb. 17 in Moscow of unspecified causes. Golovkina ...

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 ...