A new Korean star is about to make his debut on one of ballet’s most prestigious stages. Jeon Min-chul, aged 21, has joined the Mariinsky Ballet in Russia—widely regarded as one of the world’s top ...

A Mariinsky performance of “La Sylphide.” Along with gala performances, the company had been performing this ballet before it shut down last week.

Long before dancing with the Mariinsky professionally for 20 years and becoming its acting director in 2008, Fateyev was drawn to teaching. He taught his first ballet class when he was 11.

This will be the test of the Mariinsky Ballet when it performs an all-Fokine program Tuesday through Jan. 22 at the Kennedy Center Opera House. On the bill is Fokine's most famous work, ...

Kim Ki-min joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 2011 and was promoted to principal dancer in April 2015. Before his arrival, the company adhered strictly to a tradition of Russian purity, with almost no ...

Ballet fans and members of Russia's cultural elite on Thursday filed past the open casket of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg, whose ...

A principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet, Shklyarov fell from an apartment block balcony in St. Petersburg and died at the age of 39.

Ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov from the Mariinsky Ballet performs during a dress rehearsal of 'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' at the Saddlers Wells theater in London, on October 15, 2008.

Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet, fell from an apartment block balcony in St. Petersburg and died at age 39.

It has been four long years since the beauty of Russia's Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet) graced Bay Area audiences. Courtesy of Cal Performances, they return to Berkeley's Zellerbach ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Dancers Vladimir Shklyarov and Alina Somova perform as Romeo and Juliet during a rehearsal for the Mariinsky (formerly the Kirov) Ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet at the ...