With a St. Petersburg setting, dancing bear, puppet show and Stravinsky score, “Petrushka” is about as Russian as Russian ballet gets. But a brand-new adaptation, which The Portland Ballet will debut ...

BalletX and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society opened the world premiere of Amy Hall Garner’s highly colorful, theatrical Petrushka Thursday night at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater.

Basil Twist’s production of Petrouchka spins new magic around the music of Igor Stravinsky and legendary Ballets Russes production, which was originally commissioned for Lincoln Center for the ...

UW students rehearse a scene from the ballet “Petrushka.” The UW Symphony Orchestra joins the UW Department of Theatre and Dance to produce “Petrushka” and “Afternoon of a Faun” March 29-April 3 on ...

This is FRESH AIR. In 1909, the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev came to Paris with a company he called the Ballet Russe and created a sensation that lasted until Diaghilev's death 20 years later.