Valery Bogokina Myers, standing at left, watches dancers take part in a master class she taught recently at Dance Theatre of Wilkes-Barre. Costumed dancers pose with choreographer and teacher Valery ...

Let 100 navels wink in the spotlights, let every forehead bear a spangle bindi, shake out the togas and haul the stuffed tiger out of the attic. The Kirov Ballet's "La Bayadère" may have a 1950s ...

Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews. By Trip Gabriel Among the ...

The Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is the kind of place where you can see Weird Al Yankovic or the Jamz Cheerleading Championship. But back in September, for two nights only, it was the Kirov ...

It was with some reluctance that I went to Boston last week to see the Kirov Ballet dance “Swan Lake” at the Wang Center, where it was part of the Bank of America Celebrity Series, which first brought ...

The Kirov Ballet is the company that the choreographer George Balanchine left behind when he sailed from Russia in 1924. It is the company from which Rudolf Nureyev defected in 1961, followed by ...