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 first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was Swan Lake. The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was Swan Lake ...

Documentary. Directed by Bertrand Norman. In French and Russian with English subtitles and voice-over by actress Diane Baker. (Not rated. 77 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) It may be just a ...

Outside Russia, most ballet buffs agree that the Bolshoi dance company is the Soviet’s best. But in London last week, audiences had a rare chance to consider a rival. The Kirov Ballet of Leningrad, ...

More than a century ago, legendary dancer-choreographer Michel Fokine complained that the Kirov Ballet had become a company that was all about show-off-y steps and technical prowess at the expense of ...

Alla Osipenko, a star of the Soviet-era Kirov Ballet and one of the most expressive ballerinas of her generation who was blocked from major international tours at the peak of her career after her free ...

The story of Don Quixote tells of the old knight who dreams of chivalry and his comic squire, Sancho Panza. This performance by the Kirov has been hailed as one of the greatest large cast ballet ...

The doors of the blue bus hissed open and 120 members of the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet filed into the waiting room at Paris’ Le Bourget Airport. Once they were inside, one of the troupe’s two “bodyguards ...

Two years ago, the former Los Angeles Times dance critic Lewis Segal wrote an article called "Five Things I Hate About Ballet," slamming the majority of today's ballet performances as "flatulent" and ...

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