Maria Alexandrova (Gamzatti) & Nikolai Tsiskaridze (Solor) Grand Pas "Bayadère"

This old video of Bolshoi stars Geltzer and Tikhomirov shows that standards of technique as well as standards of physique for ballet dancers have changed in the course of a century.

Quiz- 7 questions to test your knowledge of ballet history and origin.

A dancer's spin, especially when he's balanced on one foot, is a pirouette. A pirouette is a ballet term meaning to whirl or spin while balanced on the toes. In the case of a ballerina, she would pirouette while "en pointe," poised on the very toe of her...

Happy Valentine's Day! From the Ballet "Carmen Suite" a story of a woman subsequently caught in a love triangle between Don José and popular bullfighter Escamillo. Choreography By Alberto Alonso

Hillarious Parody of Michael Fokine's Choreography of The Dying Swan. Dancer - Ida Nevaseyneva.

Maria Alexandria will always remain a legendary ballerina. After 20 years with the Bolshoi ballet, of which 13 of them she danced as a principle, she said that she felt it was "time to make a decision and turn to a new page". Here she is performing Carmen...

Casse-Noisette Compagnie “Bolshoi Theatre” Casse-Noisette Compagnie, chor. Jean-Christophe Maillot Final pas de deux Olga Smirnova (Ольга Смирнова) Artem Ovcharenko (Артём Овчаренко

Women began to dance ballet in 1681. At that time, the standard women's ballet shoe had heels.

Misty Copeland welcomed first baby 3 Months Ago, will be back to Ballet in 2023

Meet Vladimir Kolesnikov, a former principal dancer with the Kirov Ballet (now, the Mariinsky Theatre). Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and trained at the famed Vaganova Ballet Academy, Vlad worked for the Kirov Ballet for over twenty years.

"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"(Masha) is a dance for a ballerina. It is the third movement in The Nutcracker pas de deux. This pas de deux is from Act 2 of the 1892 ballet The Nutcracker.

In BIG AND SMALL, each dance team prepares to show the best of what it can do today. There will be no losers in this review: no one judges, in the usual sense, our young participants. But not judging does not mean not judging. A starry, but very democrati...

Creativity...Comedy...Class. These three elements make up the revolutionary Flamenco dancer - Olga Pericet. Originally from Spain, Pericet is a master of both Classical Spanish dance, as well as Flamenco. In 2018, she won the National Dance Prize of Spain...

Nina Timofeyeva known and remembered. One of the most talented and beloved disciples of the great Galina Ulanova, she knew how to make the hall not only admire the technique of dance, but also to live the life of the main character.