Dedicated to Ukraine, Alexei Ratmansky’s evening-length ballet “The Art of the Fugue” is both dispassionately unsentimental and profoundly moving. By Roslyn Sulcas He drew on Russian literature for ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — An acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet has shone the spotlight on the fierce “Black Swan” -like competition for starring roles at the famed Russian dance company.

(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) BOLSHOI THEATRE PRINCIPAL DANCER ALYONA KOVALEVA, SAYING: "We have been at home for several months, unable to work in a dance room or stay in shape. So, getting ready was tougher ...

MOSCOW (AP) — On the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, the dancers were all elegance and grace, leaping through the air and lifting their partners with seemingly little effort. But up close in a rehearsal ...

The Bolshoi Ballet dancer suspected in the acid attack on the theater's artistic director could keep his job if a court acquits him, according to the Bolshoi's director. New Yorker editor David ...