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Countering "byt" with "bytie": Ludmila Ulitskaya’s Balm for Motherhood
Written in 1995, Ludmila Ulitskaya’s "Medea and Her Children" merges "byt" and "bytie" by portraying the spiritual satisfaction found in the everyday.
Televising Soviet Ballet in the Twenty-First Century
On a day when the news was silent about why the stock market had failed to open, and as protests were unfolding in major cities across Russia, watching ballet on...
Firebird: From Slavic Mythology to American Identity
Originally choreographed by Michel Fokine for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1910, Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird" has been restaged many times and remains a popular ballet around the world and especially in...