From our 21st century vantage, Mikhailovsky Ballet’s “The Flames of Paris” is a crazy quilt of cultural references — a rousing Soviet-style story ballet about the French revolution, created to ...

Flames of Paris may hold a place in history, and while I am glad to have seen it, once is definitely enough. After the company's Giselle it was a disappointment to witness what was, to me, a messy and ...

Vladimir Dmitriev’s stunning sets and costume designs – painting both the peasant and courtiers in glorious detail – handled half the necessary acting here. Director Messerer’s astute amplification of ...

NEW YORK — The Parisian mobs are restless, and the nascent République française is about to rise. But not before copious blood lust, patriotic pirouetting, boldly mimed declarations of freedom, 1 ...

The previous night the visiting stars Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev had raised the roof; for the final performance Vasiliev was there again, but this time with Ekaterina Krysanova, the redhead ...

Segerstrom Center for the Arts Executive Vice President Judy Morr adores Russian ballet and loves to make history. She was the first U.S. presenter of Eifman Ballet – also appearing this season at the ...

When the Russian people, in 1918, killed their tsar and declared the triumph of the proletariat, one of the first things they felt had to be eliminated was classical ballet, which, as they saw it, was ...

Mikhailovsky Ballet paid homage to universal struggles for justice in their opening performance of The Flames of Paris at the Koch Theater, Friday, November 15th. Originally created to mark the 15th ...