Russian ballet maestro Yuri Grigorovich, considered one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century, has died at the ...

The State Ballet Theater of Ukraine is presenting a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” at the Coronado Performing Arts Center in November 2025.

Among the 20th century’s most significant choreographers, he led the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, creating epic ballets like “Spartacus.” ...

Born in the Soviet city of Leningrad to a ballet family, Grigorovich's career, as a dancer then choreographer, spanned 80 ...

Legendary Russian ballet figure Yuri Grigorovich ... Grigorovich made his name staging classics such as The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Stone Flower. The latter was his most famous piece ...

In June 1941, soon after Ms. Osipenko was accepted into the state ballet academy in Leningrad, Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. Ms. Osipenko was evacuated to Perm, on the Russian steppes ...

Grigorovich made his name staging classics such as The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Stone ... and insiders and ballet critics said his presence over Russia's most famed stage remained formidable.

It was “Swan Lake” by the Mariinsky Ballet, a world-renowned Russian ballet company based ... One of them was the Novosibirsk theater, a revered state-run ballet company in Siberia.

The traditional version of Swan Lake was premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet, in Russia, in 1877, featuring a prince who becomes enchanted by the swan Odette as she draws him into her lakeside world.