Thursday, January 22, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

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The Russian National Ballet Company was founded in Moscow during the transitional period of Perestroika in the late 1980s and incorporated graduates from the great Russian choreographic schools of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Perm.  Today, the Russian National Ballet Theatre is its own institution, with a full compliment of dancers of singular instruction and vast experience, many of whom have been with the company since its inception.

"The Russian National Ballet Theatre, Directed by Elena Radchenko, is a cut above many of its rivals." - Alexandera Tomalonis - Washington Post