MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education. Around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British ballerina Rachel Armstrong attends a lesson in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rachel Armstrong will take a leap towards her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) BRITISH BALLERINA, RACHEL ARMSTRONG, SAYING: "Hello, my name is Rachel. I love ballet very much and I've ...

GRANADA HILLS >> Fourteen-year-old dancer Sana Suzuki will soon pack her slippers for the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. The 9th-grade ballerina from Granada Hills Charter High School was just chosen to ...

Among the dozen 15-year-old girls in lavender leotards in Tatyana Galtseva’s class at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, one is different. And it’s not just because of her long, swan-like neck. She is Harper ...

Yuri Grigorovich, the artistic director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, whose robust choreography helped modernize the troupe’s repertoire in the 1960s but who eventually opened ...

MOSCOW, June 1 (Reuters) - Rachel Armstrong will take a leap towards her dream of becoming one of the world’s top ballet dancers when she graduates from Russia’s renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy this ...