This season Manhattan has seen more spins, leaps, foot-twiddles than it ever had before: 14 weeks of Russian ballet. Last week the Russians (two troupes managed by Impresario Sol Hurok) were on tour.

The Russian National Ballet Theatre, founded in the late 1980s as the Soviet National Ballet, is proud of its reputation as a company with the most expert dancers in Russia and Eastern Europe. Elena ...

Yuri Grigorovich has died. He was a towering figure in the field of dance as the Soviet Russian choreographer who ran Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre during the last three decades of the U.S.S.R. The ballet ...

EPPING — Epping Community Theater is hosting, for one night only, the Russian Ballet Academy’s Winter Showcase. This exciting night will feature excerpts from The Nutcracker and variations from world ...

In 1934, a gaunt, Boston esthete and dance man, Lincoln Kirstein, decided that the U. S. needed home-grown ballet. Rich Balletomaniac Kirstein pooled funds with Edward M. M. Warburg (son of Banker ...

SEEK SHELTER. AND FOR WHATEVER GRANTHAM SHOULDERS DOWN. LONG ARM FORWARD FOR ARABESQUE. INSIDE THE SUNLIT STUDIO OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET ACADEMY IN NEWMARKET, NEW HAMPSHIRE, YOUNG LADIES WITH BIG ...