MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet stars (click title to entry - thank you) once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education.
Around 100 foreigners from all over the world are enrolled at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, formally known as the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. Founded by Empress Catherine the Great, the school produced Soviet legends Olga Lepeshinskaya and Maya Plisetskaya as well as contemporary stars such as Natalia Osipova and Nikolai Tsiskaridze....
