NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia--Japanese ballet dancer Kohei Fukuda has been in an ambivalent position since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Japanese public sentiment is so strong against Moscow that there was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a country where top ballet dancers are treated like rock stars. Hundreds of fans line up at the stage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Ballet of Japan is in the UK this week at the Royal Opera House in London, the first time in over 15 years that a ...

In dance, performers speak through carefully crafted movements. Whether on a stage in Japan or abroad, the art form conveys a wealth of emotions — joy, longing, remorse — without dialogue and can ...

The western world's dance community rallied over the weekend, taking Good Morning America host Lara Spencer to task for her mockery of Prince George and his love of ballet. Under the hashtag ...

Ukrainian ballet dancers Nelia Ivanova and Svitlana Shlikhter were deeply moved when the audience gave a standing ovation during their Japan-based troupe’s performance in Latvia, ahead of the third ...

Giselle is the quintessential Romantic ballet. Premiered in 1841 at the Paris Opera, it reflects many of the preoccupations of Romanticism: nature as a repository of all that’s good, yet also ...

Shun Izawa as Albrecht and Yui Yonezawa as Giselle in the National Ballet of Japan's rendition of 'Giselle' (Tristram Kenton) Visiting the UK for the first time, the National Ballet of Japan makes its ...