After all, most touring companies are seen for what they are, a collection of more or less good artists, under a more or less good artistic director with a more or less coherent vision. But the ...

The recent season of the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) ballet at BAM inspired a number of questions, to most of which, alas, I don’t have the answers. 1) Who is in charge of this great St. Petersburg company?

Any Northern California dance season graced by the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra is one to cherish, even when what is danced and how it is danced are not in perfect alignment. The St. Petersburg ...

Diana Vishneva’s performance at the Venice Dance Biennale raised uncomfortable questions for an event that once vowed to cut ties with Russia’s artists over the war in Ukraine. By Laura Cappelle He ...

It's (mostly) an improvement. Though I remain an apologist for the harshness in the Mariinsky Cinderella, which picks up on the score's strident, sardonic qualities (it was composed in the early 1940s ...

Romance gets a modernist spin in Alexei Ratmansky’s saucy update of “Cinderella,” which the incomparable Mariinsky Ballet brings to Cal Performances this weekend. Opening night features international ...

Responsible for producing some of the dance world's most influential artists-Pavlova, Nijinsky, Balanchine, Nureyev, Baryshnikov-the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra make a rare appearance at BAM ...

Dance companies from around the world will ignite Southern California with a fresh season of work that seems to encourage a renaissance of dramatic storytelling – a renaissance, or rebirth, that takes ...