The Soviet Union’s Kirov Ballet canceled its Expo ’74 performance – and its entire American tour. “Transportation uncertainties” were cited as the reason. This was a disappointment, because the Kirov ...

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Imagine rolling up to a dingy dance club in a remote Lithuanian village in the middle of the night with two 6x7 cameras and asking to take people's pictures. That's exactly what Andrew Miksys did for ...

For saber-rattling panache and dare-devilish bravura, no group could top the Georgian State Dance Company, which is displaying its singular spells through Sunday at the Auditorium Theatre. Sparks ...

One of the last things a group of Sanford dancers did when they visited Moscow in June was put out the welcome mat. Now they’re preparing to roll out the red carpet. Sanford is one of a select few ...

THE Bolshoi and Tchaikovsky theaters are only a stout walk from each other in Moscow, but at first glance their respective products seem to be versts apart. The Bolshoi’s stage glitters with the ...

No one would’ve thought Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” would be a great match for an old video of Soviet soldiers cutting a rug—no one, that is, but your next favorite Twitter account: ...

Incredibly, the hit of the New York dance season this spring was The Bright Stream, a restaging of a Soviet “tractor-ballet” from 1935, about a Caucasian collective farm complete with hammer, sickle, ...