Circus director Bill Allen got inspired one day when he watched a Bolshoi Circus performer warm up in Russia to a recording of Tchaikovsky. "I thought, 'Wow, that's the music this art form is supposed ...

2003-09-19 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- In the world of ballet, a grand stage has often been too small to contain the larger-than-life figures who pirouette across it. Over the years, the Bolshoi ballet ...

The representative of the famous circus dynasty Zapashny in the fourth generation. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2012). General Director of the Bolshoi Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 12 (Reuters) - In February, after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Brazilian ballet dancer David Motta Soares booked an urgent flight to Turkey and left behind his dream job as ...

MOSCOW, July 21 (Reuters) - Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, grounded by COVID-19 and then shunned in the West since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, returns to international touring next week for the first time ...

In his recent year-end address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for patience with the war in Ukraine, saying the country would meet its goals. But in Moscow, the war can often ...