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Russian Ballet Theatre announces a breathtaking new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake that will travel to 52 cities across the United States, with four local stops in Pennsylvania and ...

Vladimir Shklyarov, a world-renowned Russian ballet star, has died after falling from the fifth floor of a building on Saturday. His death was confirmed by the Mariinsky Theater, a venue in the city ...

A leading Russian ballet dancer quit the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and is leaving the country for the Netherlands after denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Olga Smirnova ...

A Russian ballet dancer who was an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine has mysteriously plunged to his death from the fifth floor of a building. Vladimir Shklyarov, a married father of two, ...

The Russian Ballet Theatre announced today it is coming to Connecticut to rehearse and launch their breathtaking new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's legendary classic Swan Lake. The gorgeous ...

Russian Ballet Theatre will perform a breathtaking new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake that will travel to 52 cities across the United States, with stops in Trenton, N.J., and ...

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 ...

Artistic director of Bolshoi Ballet from 1964-1995 Ballet maestro remembered as 'legendary figure' Famed for male roles in ballets such as Spartacus Resigned in 1995 as Bolshoi struggled after Soviet ...

Trio Voronezh is three classical trained musicians who play Russian folk instruments. They join Fred in NPR's Studio 4A for some Russian music. They play a polka from a ballet score called "The Bolt," ...