As a star ballet soloist of Moscow’s legendary Bolshoi Theater stands trial over an attack in which acid was thrown in the face of the ballet troupe’s artistic director, the scandals rocking the Russian ballet world have reached St. Petersburg, the historical home of the art form in Russia.
Teachers at the city’s Vaganova Ballet Academy, which has produced legions of Russia’s most famous ballet dancers – from Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky and George Balanchine to Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov – are up in arms after the Russian culture minister named flamboyant and divisive dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze as the school’s new head.
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