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An evening of sparkle and bravura at London's international ballet gala. 

This bright, brief and breezy production is occasionally hard to follow, but nonetheless soaked in rustic charm.

The Bolshoi are beautiful but uncertain dancers of Balanchine in Brisbane.

A star studded programmme of works celebrating the legacy of Les Ballets Russes

Given the unappealing score and the lack of narrative and meaninful choreography, the dancers perform heroically.

While the ballet's libretto is dated, The Golden Age can, when performed by great artists, be both an entertaining and emotionally satisfying ballet.

The Bolshoi Ballet's London residency continues with Alexei Ratmansky's restaging of The Flames of Paris

Unveiled in 2014, Jean-Christophe Maillot's The Taming of the Shrew has been an enormous hit in Moscow. Here it received a triumphant London première as part of the Bolshoi's three-week Royal Opera House residency.

Performing their prize winning The Taming of the Shrew in the Dance Open Festival at St Petersburg, this is a new-look Bolshoi company indeed!

Alexei Ratmansky's The Flames of Paris shows the Bolshoi Ballet in top form at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

The Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova is a true legend in the world of classical ballet. Her dramatic interpretations plumbed deep into the human soul and revealed its full gamut of emotion and poetic beauty.