It was with some reluctance that I went to Boston last week to see the Kirov Ballet dance “Swan Lake” at the Wang Center, where it was part of the Bank of America Celebrity Series, which first brought ...

The ballet offerings of last night's "Kirov Spectacular" at the Kennedy Center Opera House looked good on paper -- and even better shortly before curtain time, when it was announced that the "Black ...

The first two productions of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Kirov Ballet, playing at the Lincoln Center Festival through Saturday, are ballets more than a century old; both have lavish sets and costumes; and ...

Ten of us Plus 60 travelers who were on summer’s Volga River cruise in Russia knew we’d be seeing “Swan Lake” by Russia’s prestigious Kirov Ballet Company in Chicago this month, but when we were ...

On May 23 the American Ballet Theatre will begin its spring season at the Metropolitan Opera with an opening-night gala that offers a preview of the nine weeks that will follow. No event on that night ...

The Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is the kind of place where you can see Weird Al Yankovic or the Jamz Cheerleading Championship. But back in September, for two nights only, it was the Kirov ...

"Black Swan," the 2010 psychological thriller starring Natalie Portman, is perhaps the most well-known work inspired by "Swan ...