During the Bolshoi Ballet's first tour abroad, Western audiences were brought to their feet by the thrilling athleticism that never lost the essential beauty of the dance.
The Nutcracker speaks to the child in everyone, with it's happy dreams of snow, presents, adventures, toys and wishes fulfilled. Despite Tchaikovsky's most addictive score, the original 1892 ballet...
Michael Fokine took the timeless music of Frederic Chopin and created Chopiniana (later renamed "Les Sylphides"), which celebrates the lyrical and poetic qualities of Romantic Ballet Blanc to express...
No ballet has such deathless appeal as Swan Lake, a haunting fable of a young man s nai vete and a beautiful girl s entrapment in swan s feathers, all swept up in Tchaikovsky s emotional music...