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Mariinsky Ballet

April 2022

  • Kazan, Russia. 22nd Dec, 2020. Ballet dancer Olga Smirnova performs in the Swan Lake production staged as part of the 33rd Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Festival at the Musa Dzhalil Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Credit: Yegor Aleyev/TASS/Alamy Live News<br>2DTYXME Kazan, Russia. 22nd Dec, 2020. Ballet dancer Olga Smirnova performs in the Swan Lake production staged as part of the 33rd Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Festival at the Musa Dzhalil Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Credit: Yegor Aleyev/TASS/Alamy Live News

    ‘I couldn’t keep it inside’: ballet star Olga Smirnova on quitting the Bolshoi and fleeing Russia

    After Putin invaded Ukraine, the Russian dancer denounced the war, left the Kremlin-allied company – and flew out of Moscow that night. As she prepares for her debut at the Dutch National Ballet, Smirnova speaks for the first time

March 2022

  • Olga Smirnova, right, with Artemy Belyakov performing at the Bolshoi in 2019.

    ‘A line has been drawn’: Olga Smirnova quits Bolshoi Ballet over Ukraine war

    The first Russian to leave the company over her country’s invasion of its neighbour will join the Dutch National Ballet

September 2017

  • Xander Parish, principal dancer and the first British dancer to join the Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg, Russia, photographed at Kings Place, for New Review, 10/08/2017. Sophia Evans for The Observer

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Xander Parish: ‘I feel adopted by the Russians – if I met the right girl I might settle there’

    The Yorkshire-born principal dancer at St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Ballet on cricket, homesickness and his new life abroad

August 2017

  • Mariinsky stars Kimin Kin and Viktoria Tereshkina make it look easy in La Bayadère.

    Mariinsky Ballet: La Bayadère; Contrasts review – truly elevated company

    Even when ballet gets silly, the Mariinsky’s dancers are in a class of their own

July 2017

  • Xander Parish (Prince Siegfried) and Viktoria Tereshkina (Odette) in Swan Lake

    Swan Lake/Don Quixote review – Xander Parish earns his Mariinsky wings

  • Edward Bluemel and Amy Morgan in Touch

    Five of the best… theatre shows
    Touch and Mariinsky Ballet: this week’s best UK theatre and dance

  • Mariinsky's Production Of Don Quixote At the Royal Opera House<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 24: Viktoria Tereshkina as Kitri and Kimin Kim as Basilio with artists of the company in The Mariinsky Ballet's production of Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky's Don Quixote at The Royal Opera House on July 24, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Don Quixote review – synchronised bull-fighters take over as the Mariinsky banishes Don

  • Bertie Carvel (Rupert Murdoch) in Ink

    Five of the best… theatre shows
    Ink and Mariinsky Ballet: this week’s best UK theatre and dance

June 2017

  • Summer 2017's dance highlights

    Summer arts preview 2017
    The standout dance of summer 2017

    Tap thunders into new territory, 25 performers make 10,000 moves, Lady Macbeth is laid bare and a young boy goes on a journey through gender transition

April 2016

  • Concerto DSCH to the music of Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto is Alexei Ratmansky’s seventh ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre Mariinsky Ballet wil perform at the Wales Millenium Centre in April 2016 Mariinsky Ballet: Concerto DSCH | Sacre (The Rite of Spring) ONLY UK PERFORMANCES IN 2016

    Mariinsky Ballet review – 20 minutes of ninja-kicking genius leads to a zombie apocalypse

    Millennium Centre, Cardiff
    Valery Gergiev hares through Alexei Ratmansky’s brain-fizzing dance of dejection before plunging into Sasha Waltz’s ash-filled end of days

December 2015

  • Programme Name: Rudolf Nureyev – Dance to Freedom - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Rudolf Nureyev (ARTEM OVCHARENKO) - (C) Alexey Kostromin - Photographer: Alexey Kostromin

    Dance blog
    How Rudolf Nureyev danced to freedom

    In 1961, on tour in Paris, the Kirov Ballet’s star made a historic dash from his KGB bodyguards into the arms of French police. But was there more to his defection than meets the eye? A BBC film tells the story

November 2015

  • Xander Parish in Diamonds

    Dancers' diaries
    Dancer Xander Parish: 'It's relentless. I did 50 days in a row without a break'

    In the first of a new series exploring dancers’ lives, Xander Parish of the Mariinsky Ballet gets into the role of Romeo, explains how to be the perfect partner and considers his hectic schedule

April 2015

  • Diana Vishneva

    Diana Vishneva: ‘It’s not my wish to run the Bolshoi’

    Russian dancer Diana Vishneva pirouettes between Moscow and New York – with masseurs on speed-dial around the world. The superballerina tells Judith Mackrell about why she’s worried about the future of Russian dance and wanting to start a family

December 2014

  • Judith Mackrell's top 10 dance shows of 2014

    Judith Mackrell’s top 10 dance of 2014

    We had bearded ice-skaters, Tamara Rojo at ENB and a compelling new queen crowned in Natalia Osipova, finds Judith Mackrell

November 2014

  • The Mikhailovsky dancers of the Mikhailo

    Mikhailovsky Ballet – the St Petersburg company wows Manhattan

    The Mikhailovsky’s US debut is an eye-popping showcase of refined technique and insouciant star turns, writes Luke Jennings
  • UK premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's comic Opera, The Left Hander

    The Left-Hander review – finely played and sung, but it’s no masterpiece

    A late start left the audience fractious, and striking orchestral and vocal effects were offset by a thinness of melodic and thematic inspiration , writes Tim Ashley
  • Akram Khan and Tamara Rojo in Dust

    Dance blog
    National Dance awards nominations give young artists a chance to shine

    Nominations for the 15th National Dance awards promise a vintage list of eventual winners as traditional boundaries crumble and the spotlight falls on younger rising stars, writes Judith Mackrell

August 2014

  • Uliana Lopatkina and Timur Askerov dance Marguerite and Armand

    Mariinsky Ballet mixed programme review – the best of the season so far

    Golovine's original stage designs, Technicolor playing from the orchestra and the ardent energy of the corps brought this Firebird to flaming fruition, writes Judith Mackrell

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Mariinsky Ballet: Balanchine review – performances of studied excellence

    The Mariinsky's joyful dancing does much to make up for Balanchine's occasional lack of choreographic imagination, writes Judith Mackrell
  • swan lake mariinsky

    Mariinsky Ballet: Swan Lake review – memorable flashes of brilliance

    Oksana Skorik shows great potential, though for impeccable Russian flair look no further than Yorkshire's Xander Parish, writes Luke Jennings

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