Ballet production featuring dancing czar upsets churchgoers
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MOSCOW  - A ballet depicting Czar Nicholas II dancing in tights is drawing protests from members of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has declared Russia's last czar a saint.
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PRAGUE - The new monarch of Cambodia was once a dance-crazy youngster whose passion for ballet took him all the way to Prague for 13 years of rigorous training with the best, steeping himself in Czech language and culture in the process.
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Diana Vishneva, a principal dancer with the Kirov Ballet and American Ballet Theater, is widely acknowledged as one of the worldâs great ballerinas.
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Some clergy have criticized what they regarded as the churchâs leftward drift, including the consecration of an openly gay bishop.
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Despite the best efforts of oppressive regimes, art endures. The Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir, which made its American debut at Avery Fisher Hall on Tuesday, offers potent proof.
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âTrumpery,â a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.
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The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.
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The new millennium has brought to the fore two young men who are full-time exponents of ballet as an art both traditional and new: Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky.
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As a boy, he danced the Nutcracker in Prague. As a young man, he performed traditional Korean numbers for the future dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-il.
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The American premiere of Aleksei Ratmansky's version of "Cinderella" was a wildly uneven occasion, choreographically eccentric and scenically impoverished.
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Working around bats, bugs and dripping silver balloons, dancers overtake New York CityÂs public places.
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Darcey Bussell is to give her farewell performance as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London.
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Last February, at the Atlanta Ballet&#39;s annual gala, Lynda Courts saw an item up for auction that she just could not refuse. The evening&#39;s performance was &quot;Romeo and Juliet,&quot; and Romeo himself was on offer.
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CityDance Ensemble presented an impressively varied program of work by nine choreographers.
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Thousands of haggard, shivering and determined opposition protesters danced and sang in triumph yesterday after Ukraine&#39;s parliament approved amendments to ensure a fair ballot in the presidential rerun later this month.
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They were attending Mass in Denver, but their thoughts were far away. Members of Denver's Transfiguration Ukrainian Catholic Church wrapped up Thanksgiving weekend with a service to raise money for family and ...
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A refuge for dance is a bastion of growth and stability, but some question its programming.