Many contemporary audiences find classical ballet culture alienating, but the Mariinsky Ballet’s rendition of “Paquita” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts pushed the form of dance ...
Viktoria Tereshkina whipped through her double fouetté turns in the final minutes of the Mariinsky Ballet’s “Paquita” on Tuesday at the Kennedy Center, spinning with such speed you half-expected to ...
As a reaction to the conservative choices of the Mariinsky season (including Swan Lake and Don Quixote), this triple bill is positively anarchic. With a cavalier disregard for thematic unity, the ...
Carmen was created as a vehicle for Maya Plisetskaya, the great Soviet ballerina who died in 2015, and it needs someone of her magnetism to redeem it from the hokiness of choreography and concept.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For balletomanes who know their history, the Mariinsky Ballet’s all-Fokine evening at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Thursday was as close to dance ...
Invited by the sponsors of the 2nd China International Ballet Season, top dancers from Bolshoi Theater of Russia, Mariinsky Ballet, Moscow Classical Ballet, and Moscow Kremlin Ballet Theatre will ...