It is a curious feeling to go to meet a hated figure and find a delicate, blonde girl with a sweet face. On Monday, 23-year-old ballerina Alina Somova opens the batting for the legendary Mariinsky ...

The Mariinsky Ballet has chosen to open its much-anticipated summer season in London by unveiling its newest bendy ballerina – and a male shooting star. Alina Somova, 23, and Vladimir Shklyarov, 24, ...

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For sheer glamour, Paquita is undoubtedly the show of the fall dance season. The two-act classical ballet arrives at Place des Arts later this month, resplendent in its décor, its brilliant costumes ...

It’s as though both of Russia’s major ballet companies have been caught in the unyielding grip of a polar vortex. Bitter fissures have cracked through their elegant facades: Valery Gergiev, general ...

I'm only prancing: Alina Somova's notorious 'smiley' jeté It is not her fault. The Mariinsky only spotlights ballerinas when the director chooses to, and the current director, Yuri Fateev (not a man ...