The Soviet Union’s Kirov Ballet canceled its Expo ’74 performance – and its entire American tour. “Transportation uncertainties” were cited as the reason. This was a disappointment, because the Kirov ...

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Imagine rolling up to a dingy dance club in a remote Lithuanian village in the middle of the night with two 6x7 cameras and asking to take people's pictures. That's exactly what Andrew Miksys did for ...

In a perfect world, it takes two to tango. But what if dancing is illegal? In the USSR, some popular dance styles of the time, such as the rock-n-roll and the twist, were banned and ended up part of ...

For saber-rattling panache and dare-devilish bravura, no group could top the Georgian State Dance Company, which is displaying its singular spells through Sunday at the Auditorium Theatre. Sparks ...

No one would’ve thought Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” would be a great match for an old video of Soviet soldiers cutting a rug—no one, that is, but your next favorite Twitter account: ...