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On arriving at the Lyric Opera House, Joffrey Ballet audiences encountered about 50 protesters standing beneath the Lyric’s portico on Wednesday, forming a circle around the lobby doors.

Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” has long been considered one of the greatest works of literature, capturing cultural imaginations for more than a century. Adapting more than 800 pages of passion, ...

Perhaps no world-class ballet company polarizes dance fans more than Russia’s Eifman Ballet. On one hand are those fans who adore the operatic-sized gestures that Boris Eifman creates for his virtuoso ...

It was in 2013, with the addition of Stanton Welch’s “La Bayadere” and Lar Lubovitch’s “Othello” to the repertoire of the Joffrey Ballet, that I began to notice a concerted effort to build the company ...

How do you fit an 800-page Russian classic into a night's ballet? Throw a lot of ballroom dances. There has been a couple of attempts to make Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" into a ballet before - there ...

The world-famous Bolshoi Theatre is a Russian icon. But a new staging of the ballet Anna Karenina takes the beloved Russian epic — and the theater — into the 21st century. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly ...

But his ballet vision is, to Western eyes, still stuck firmly in those decaying decades of the fin-de-Soviet empire, when the Lycra ballet was king, and clutch ‘n’ grope the method of choice. If Ken ...

Yuri Possokhov’s beautiful and distilled version of Leo Tolstoy’s epic tale sees the magnificent Robyn Hendricks in the titular role, alongside rising star Callum Linnane as Count Vronksy Just before ...