Ballet fanatics in Egypt have a cause to celebrate next month as the “Imperial Russian Ballet” company will be performing Swan Lake on the Cairo Opera House stage next month. From March 7 till ...

HAIKOU /China/, May 25. /TASS/. The Imperial Russian Ballet company will perform its classic production of Swan Lake in China's Hainan on June 2-3. It was reported by the Hainan Daily newspaper.

One of the longest and most poignant classical ballets, inherited almost unaltered from Petipa and the nineteenth century Imperial Russian ballet, it provides the British company the ideal ...

Swan Lake is one of the few Russian classical ballets to have premiered not in imperial St. Petersburg, but in the more "democratic" Moscow. The Bolshoi Ballet was headed by a Czech, Václav ...

Grigorovich was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on January 2, 1927 into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet. He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1946 and ...

Tatiana Leskova is one of the last surviving dancers from the world famous Imperial Russian Ballet. We spoke with her in 2007 at the rehearsal when she was invited to help restore Leonide Massine ...