Gabrielle Perkins, 17, of Oakland, has become the only American accepted this year into one of the world's most prestigious ballet academies: the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

No other school can boast the talent that St. Petersburg's Vaganova Ballet Academy has unleashed on the world stage: Pavlova, Nijinsky, Nureyev, and Balanchine, to name just a few. Another alumnus ...

ST. PETERSBURG -- In February 1972, as the Moscow correspondent of this newspaper, I visited the Vaganova Ballet Academy, principal training ground for the renowned Kirov/Maryinski Ballet, in its ...

Shokhina’s journey as a ballerina began in 1983, when the Vaganova Ballet Academy, a premier ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia, sent representatives to her town of Izhevsk to scout for ...

An abrupt shake-up at the renowned Vaganova Ballet Academy, feeder school of the Mariinsky, has further deepened anti-Gergiev sentiment in the ballet world. Comments. Sign up. Advertisement.

The Morschakovs, who are married and have three children, met in 2003 and founded the Academy of Russian Classical Ballet in 2004. The Academy of Russian Classical Ballet is at 46969 W. Road in Wixom.

The 23-year-old dancer, a native of Northern Virginia, is no stranger to St. Petersburg, having studied at the Vaganova Ballet Academy from 2007 to 2010. For the last year and a half, ...

The nonprofit Vaganova Academy offers ballet training for anyone with any financial means. Since 2020, Reed has granted more than $20,000 in scholarships to students who may need discounted tuition, ...