When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Where: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive. Tickets: $22.50-$42.50, at the CCPA Ticket Office; or call (562) 467-8818 or go to ...

Russia’s renowned Moiseyev Dance Company will be onstage at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts on Friday and Saturday as part of a tour dedicated to the 50th anniversary of its first visit to ...

Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev, dancer, choreographer and director: born Kiev, Russian Empire 21 January 1906; Director, The Moiseyev Dance Company 1937-2007; twice married, first 1940 Tamara Zeifert ...

Igor Moiseyev, who transformed folk dance into a legitimate genre of choreographic art that won worldwide acclaim, died Friday in Moscow. He was 101. Moiseyev had been unconscious for the past three ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MOSCOW — Igor Moiseyev, a Russian dance master who combined folk traditions with the art of classical ballet to build a dance company that became one of the ...

Music and dance have the power to transport us. For 70 years, Russia”s Moiseyev Dance Company has been transporting audiences to all kinds of places by presenting cultural dances from just about ...

Despite a diverse repertoire, some folkloric dance companies can become a blur of spins and elaborately embroidered costumes over the course of an evening. Not so with Moiseyev Dance Company, the ...

Igor Moiseyev, the ballet-trained dancer and choreographer whose pioneering vision of theatricalized folk dance not only created an acclaimed Russian company but influenced artists and audiences ...

In Russian history, the year 1937 has become synonymous with the worst mass repressions of the Soviet period. But it was also the year that, on Feb. 10, a dance company was founded in Moscow, one that ...

Acclaimed Soviet-Russian choreographer Igor Moiseyev, whose National Dance Ensemble was founded in 1937 and went on to represent Soviet culture internationally during the Cold War years and afterward, ...