13:51 20th century classics
The 15th International Festival of Arts “From the Avant-garde to the Present Day,” running through March 25 at the Shostakovich Philharmonic, the Hermitage Theater, and the Sheremetyev Palace, is subtitled “Shostakovich’s Galaxy” this year.

13:44 Lords of the dance
A new cutting-edge piece set to music of Dmitry Shostakovich with the plot inspired by Nikolai Gogols’s “The Overcoat” and a delicious cocktail of the choreography of Marius Petipa, George Balanchine and William Forsythe...

13:03 Russian culture returns with an emphasis on youth
Some 16 years after the Iron Curtain vanished, suddenly exposing Czechs to breaths of culture beyond the Eastern bloc, Russian culture is making a comeback in the Czech Republic.