when training for the Vaganova Festival, it enables them to do really well in auditions. It’s a great confidence-builder. They can literally Othink on ...

The studios reflect a traditional Russian ballet academy, with senior instructors who received their Vaganova ballet training from the finest professional institutions and have danced in profession… ...

Ballerina Diana Vishneva criticises change at Vaganova Ballet Academy. Diana Vishneva, the principal dancer of the Mariinsky Ballet, hits out at Nikolai Tsiskaridze's appointment to head Vaganova ...

Gabrielle Perkins, 17, of Oakland, has become the only American accepted this year into one of the world's most prestigious ballet academies: the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

ST. PETERSBURG -- In February 1972, as the Moscow correspondent of this newspaper, I visited the Vaganova Ballet Academy, principal training ground for the renowned Kirov/Maryinski Ballet, in its ...

No other school can boast the talent that St. Petersburg's Vaganova Ballet Academy has unleashed on the world stage: Pavlova, Nijinsky, Nureyev, and Balanchine, to name just a few. Another alumnus ...

The film begins with a look at the arduous training young women receive at the Vaganova Ballet Academy. While the footage is free of images of twisted, tortured feet, bloody toeshoes and ...

Keenan Kampa, the first American Dancer in the Mariinsky Ballet . Source: Gene Schiavone . The mean girls, bulimic roommates, language problems, demeaning teachers, and small conspiracies — much ...

He studied at the Vaganova Ballet Academy, then joined the Mariinsky in 1992, before moving into choreography. Since then he has choreographed works for the Mariinsky, ...

Ballet Manila beautifully staged its world premiere of "Pearls," the highlight of its 30th anniversary, cementing the company's reputation as a formidable ballet institution.