A Giant Leap to the Russian Stage for American Ballet Dancer Hallberg
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: It was with this leap in 2011 that David Hallberg made history in Moscow. Russians like Nureyev and Baryshnikov have famously come West to dance in the U.S., but as the prince in "Sleeping Beauty," Hallberg became the first American principal dancer of the Bolshoi, the world's largest ballet, with more than 200 dancers, an institution that's remained at the center of R…