Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dancers with the Eugene Ballet rehearsed Wednesday for their world premiere of Petrushka at the Hult Center for the Performing ...

Think of Petrushka as a Russian Pinocchio, but without a sweet old puppet maker and a happy Disney ending. In a nutshell, Stravinksy’s ballet, Petrushka was about a puppet who came to life, but who ...

BalletX and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society opened the world premiere of Amy Hall Garner’s highly colorful, theatrical Petrushka Thursday night at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater.

Diablo Ballet Co-Artistic Director Nikolai Kabaniaev is a Russian- trained choreographer with a flair for theatricality and a helpless attraction to big ideas. In recent years, he's made an ...

The original “Petrushka” was a ballet about puppets, performed by live dancers. Basil Twist’s “Petrushka” at The Paramount is a performance by puppets who behave like real people, motivated by ...

Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

PORTLAND — A swift kick in the keister is the first thing that happens to whichever Stanley brother is dancing the title role in “Petrushka.” In the original version of this classic Russian ballet, ...

It’s not an overstatement to say that Ian Spink is one of the most important figures in British contemporary dance. Yet there’s every chance, especially if you’re on the youthful side, that you’ve ...

The original “Petrushka” was a ballet about puppets, performed by live dancers. Basil Twist’s “Petrushka” at The Paramount is a performance by puppets who behave like real people, motivated by ...