As the Soviet Union was dissolving, it became something of a fanciful game for ballet lovers to fantasize about the possibilities awaiting Russia’s storied cultural institutions. What would happen ...

Many ballet students dream of some day dancing with the Mariinsky Ballet, one of the world’s leading ballet companies. A group of students at the American Ballet Theater in Costa Mesa saw a piece of ...

The Mariinsky Ballet has been ordered to stay home to avoid further spread of the coronavirus. What does this mean for other companies? By Alex Marshall For the past three weeks, the Mariinsky Ballet, ...

The Mariinsky Ballet finally arrived on the East Coast of the United States 118 years after its initial apparition in a revival of “Raymonda,” a classical piece of the Russian ballet repertoire, at ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Spirits, dreams, swans and an Arabian tale. These subjects do not seem out of place when it comes to the subjects of ballet but more than 100 years ago, when ...

At the Music Center in Los Angeles, The Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg performed George Balanchine’s “Jewels.” In a very informative pre-performance lecture at the Music Center, journalist and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a culture maven and arts enthusiast. In Marius Petipa’s classic ballet, “La Bayadere” (The Temple Dancer), a young maiden ...

Viktoria Tereshkina whipped through her double fouetté turns in the final minutes of the Mariinsky Ballet’s “Paquita” on Tuesday at the Kennedy Center, spinning with such speed you half-expected to ...

We should all be able to agree on this: The Mariinsky Ballet is at the pinnacle of classical dance. That wasn’t always the case. Though the historic St. Petersburg company produced unique talents such ...

The Mariinsky Ballet’s hierarchy consists of five ranks: corps de ballet, coryphée, second soloist, first soloist and principal dancer. A first soloist is just below the principal dancer and is ...

Vladimir Shklyarov, seen in the Mariinsky Ballet Theatre's production of George Balanchine's "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux," has died. He was 39. (Robbie Jack / Corbis via Getty Images) Vladimir Shklyarov, ...