When Cecil Sharp, Britain`s most celebrated collector of folk songs and dances, sent his disciples into the Appalachians in the 1920s, they discovered dances that had long disappeared from the British ...

Igor Moiseyev, who transformed folk dance into a legitimate genre of choreographic art that won worldwide acclaim, died Friday in Moscow. He was 101. Moiseyev had been unconscious for the past three ...

The nonprofit arts organization Nouveau Chamber Ballet not only brings elaborate, tightly choreographed dance performances to audiences across the country, but also dedicates themselves to upholding ...

Fifty dancers paraded around the stage in blue and white traditional costumes, performing “My Siberia,” to welcome the audience. The Krasnoyarsk National Dance Company of Siberia performed an ...

BROOKLYN’S Asser Levy Park came alive with the sound of Russian music, the aroma of traditional cherry ravioli and the joy of hundreds of footloose kids pirouetting and bopping on the stage. The green ...

Outside, women wearing colorful sarafans, traditional Russian folk dresses, greeted hundreds of visitors who flocked to the Russian Center. Onstage, the State Don Cossacks swirled in an exhilarating ...

The "Gzhel" Moscow State Academic Theatre of Dance will perform at the Poly Theatre from January 4 to 11 and then move to the Beijing Exhibition Hall Theatre on January 24 and 25. The Moscow dance ...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Russians Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin added a few leaves to their infamous aboriginal themed costumes on Sunday but nothing could cover up the fact that folk dances could ...