Ballet Documentary Chronicles Russian Company Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new documentary, Ballets Russes, just out on DVD.It tells the story of ballet after the death of ...

Russia's Bolshoi Ballet was rocked following the 2013 acid attack on the company's artistic director. A new documentary airing Monday on HBO, Bolshoi Babylon, looks at the culture of the company ...

An entertaining and insightful new documentary, “Marius Petipa: The French Master of Russian Ballet” (streaming May 12 on Amazon Prime and available on iTunes and DVD), explores not only his ...

Sergei Filin, the Russian ballet director who was partially blinded in a 2013 acid attack, is the focus of the behind-the-scenes HBO documentary "Bolshoi Babylon" that shows the flipside of a ...

Remembering Yuri Grigorovich, a visionary leader of Russian ballet By Charles Maynes. Published May 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM EDT ... Grigorovich - heard speaking here in a Soviet-era documentary ...

Yuri Grigorovich has died. He was a towering figure in the field of dance as the Soviet Russian choreographer who ran Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre during the last three decades of the U.S.S.R. The ballet ...