Friday’s premiere of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, the first ballet on the renovated stage of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, was a great success. The famous ballet was staged about 550 times since its first production in 1899. This is Bolshoi’s seventh production of the ballet, choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich, the author of two successful versions in [...]
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November 20, 2011
November 15, 2011
Bolshoi ballet loses leading dancers to theatre in St Petersburg
One of the Bolshoi theatre’s most promising dance partnerships is leaving the Moscow company for St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky theatre. Prima ballerina Natalia Osipova, 25, and principal dancer Ivan Vasiliev, 22, will leave the newly renovated Bolshoi to work with the Mikhailovsky’s new Spanish artistic director, Nacho Duato. In January, modern choreographer Duato became the first [...]
September 12, 2011
Ballet stars take on modern classics
Ballet Stars of the 21st Century Sept. 17 and 18, 6 pm, State Kremlin Palace, the Kremlin, m. Alexandrovsky Sad Dance lovers, breathe deeply: the Kremlin Gala “Ballet Stars of the 21st Century” features an international premiere, five Russianstage debuts and some of the world’s most beloved ballerinas. But viewers expecting pirouettes and pointe shoes [...]