A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

These famous ballets have transcended time, culture, and language, drawing fans into fantastical worlds filled with passion, tragedy, and wonder.

With its controversial plot and demanding technique, this last of the great Russian imperial ballets is rarely performed in full.

The classic, with music by Russian ... Elsewhere, a princess is bitten by a gigantic mouse, and during battle, riflemen bite off their own legs to fall, crush, and kill the nutcracker’s army.

English National Ballet has swapped Russian sweets in its production of the Nutcracker for Ukrainian treats in a confected ballet row, The Telegraph can reveal. Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet ...

PRINCESS Charlotte has taken after her granny ... is also known to have taken her daughter to watch The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House in central London. Both Kate and Prince William, also ...

It wasn’t until 1954 its staging by George Balanchine with the New York City Ballet, however, that “The Nutcracker” became a holiday staple. Balanchine, the Russian-born founder of the New ...

REUTERS When the Russian Revolution began in 1905, dancers from the production were scattered across Europe, and with them came “The Nutcracker,” which cropped up in Budapest, London and ...

A writer confronts her “Nutcracker” childhood and the unforgiving ... by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and is based on a Russian fairy tale. Seated in the fourth ring, Ms. Robb grew entranced ...

It takes some doing in this country to be more than about 25 miles from a production of “The Nutcracker” during the Christmas season. The ballet has become as American as Friday Night Lights ...

Is it any wonder that The Nutcracker is one of the most popular ballets in the country, if not the world? Yet when you dig into the Russian roots of this holiday classic, there’s a dark history ...

South African ballet dancers in the Russian Ballet Ensemble perform The Nutcracker in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 10. Ihsaan Haffejee / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Ukraine is ...