Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education. Russian ballet stars once ...

EADaily, December 16th, 2025. Ballet dancer and acting rector of the Vaganova Russian Ballet Academy Nikolai Tsiskaridze has ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rachel Armstrong will take a leap towards her dream of becoming one of the world's top ballet dancers when she graduates from Russia's renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy this month.

Chloe Heninger has wanted to become a Bolshoi Ballerina for as long as she can remember. This summer, the 13-year-old’s dream became closer to reality - when she received an offer to spend the school ...

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GRANADA HILLS >> Fourteen-year-old dancer Sana Suzuki will soon pack her slippers for the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. The 9th-grade ballerina from Granada Hills Charter High School was just chosen to ...

Sofia Golovkina, 88, former ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet who directed the company’s academy, the Moscow Ballet School, for four decades, died Feb. 17 in Moscow of unspecified causes. Golovkina ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education. Around ...