For decades now, Russians have known the drill. When there's bad news brewing, such as the death of a leader, or a convulsive event, such as the Chernobyl disaster, State TV switches its programming ...

For decades now, Russians have known the drill. When there's bad news brewing, such as the death of a leader, or a convulsive event, such as the Chernobyl disaster, State TV switches its programming ...

During the 1991 August Coup in Russia, the ballet Swan Lake played on a loop on state TV. The unusual broadcast alerted Soviet citizens that something was catastrophically wrong in Moscow. On Friday a ...

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Russia's famed Bolshoi Theater will host the Paris Opera Ballet on Friday for the first time since the fall of communism, producing four neo-classical works from the second ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is rooting for "Black Swan" to win at the upcoming Oscars, as the Hollywood melodrama finds resonance with ballet's master of heritage. Starring Natalie Portman as the black ...

The national company has a new leader, Jurgita Dronina, and a desire to raise its profile to a troupe that can rank among ...

Sergei Polunin courted controversy when he backed Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, and gained Russian citizenship in 2019 - Andrew Crowley for The Telegraph Sergei Polunin, a former star at London’s ...

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The ballet world is mourning renowned Russian ballet dancer and onetime Ukraine war critic Vladimir Shklyarov after he fell 60 feet to his death from the fifth-story balcony of a St. Petersburg ...

Vladimir Shklyarov, one of ballet's leading dancers, has died aged 39 after falling from a fifth-floor balcony. His death was confirmed by the St Petersburg company on Saturday and, according to ...