Talk of Russian ballet and familiar classics like Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker come to mind instantly. So, it comes as a surprise that a 50-year-old Russian ballet company in ...

April 1, 2007 — -- With dancers averaging 220 pounds and a combined weight of two tons, the Big Ballet Company is adding new weight -- literally -- to Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake." The plus-sized ...

Russian ballerina Alisa Sveshnikova is tired, and no wonder. “I like the U.S., but we have so busy a schedule that we have no time to see points of interest,” she said by telephone from her Houston ...