Bolshoi
Opinion: Ballet's Stars are RevoltingMonday, 15 July 2013
Are we seeing a breakdown in the ballet company system? Where the brightest stars used to twinkle in the great companies, all is changing. Alina Cojocaru, the great Royal Ballet ballerina, has announced today she's joining English National Ballet -... Read more... |
Bolshoi storms continue with loss of chief execTuesday, 09 July 2013
Just a fortnight before Russia's great Bolshoi Ballet lands in London for its splendid summer tour, it has now added a lost chief executive to its tally of a blinded ballet director, an arrested dancer, and a sacked star.The Russian press reports... Read more... |
Bolshoi Ballet dismisses world star Nikolai TsiskaridzeSunday, 09 June 2013
The celebrated star of the Bolshoi, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, has been told his contracts will not be renewed when they expire at the end of this month - an effective dismissal for Russia's flamboyant and outspoken ballet icon. The dancer is currently... Read more... |
Ex-Bolshoi star Natalia Osipova joins The Royal BalletMonday, 08 April 2013
The Russian superstar ballerina Natalia Osipova is to join the Royal Ballet, the Royal Opera House announced today. The 26-year-old Moscow ballerina, who made her name as a wunderkind in the Bolshoi Ballet until she quit two years ago, signed a... Read more... |
Bolshoi full casting up as box office opensSaturday, 06 April 2013
General booking for the Bolshoi Ballet's Covent Garden season this summer opens on Tuesday (9 April), and the company has at last announced its intended casting. However, it should always be borne in mind that, as Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte... Read more... |
Still Shocking - The Rite of Spring 100 Years OnMonday, 01 April 2013
Victims driven to death by the mob, women and men violently rutting in animal costumes, a black comedy about a snatched baby, a naked man dancing alone in his own fantasy - many and varied are the images in the nearly 200 danceworks created to the... Read more... |
Will ballet public boycott the Bolshoi?Sunday, 17 March 2013
Is the Bolshoi Ballet going to have trouble selling its tickets for its London tour as a result of the acid attack on its artistic director Sergei Filin? A range of opinion is erupting among ballet-goers dismayed not only by the attack but by the... Read more... |
Opinion: Crime and moral evasion at the Bolshoi BalletThursday, 07 March 2013
So the man who specialises in dancing Bolshoi ballet villains has been arrested and confessed to the infamous attack on his boss, Sergei Filin. But today Pavel Dmitrichenko, well-known to Bolshoi audiences for playing Ivan the Terrible, one of... Read more... |
Interview: Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin says, 'I'll be back'Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin has vowed to return from the horror of an acid attack to lead Russia's flagship ballet company - "not handsome, but in full force", in a remarkable interview from his hospital bed. Facing two solid days of... Read more... |
Bolshoi Ballet chief attacked with acid - his sight is threatenedSunday, 20 January 2013
UPDATED SUNDAY: Moscow police have revealed that Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin was attacked with sulphuric acid, causing third-degree burns to his face and eyes. As he recovered today from a second round of surgery on his damaged eyes,... Read more... |
Q&A Special: Choreographer & Ballet-Restorer Pierre LacotteSaturday, 10 November 2012
On 25 November cinemas all over Britain and overseas will host a live relay from the Bolshoi Ballet of a rampantly OTT and enormously entertaining ballet set in ancient Egypt, The Pharaoh's Daughter. It has mummies coming to life, English tourists... Read more... |
DVD: The Alexander Sokurov CollectionTuesday, 30 October 2012
Internationally he may be Russia's best-known film director, but Alexander Sokurov’s fame - his unique single-frame Russian Ark from 2002 aside - hasn’t travelled as widely as it might. Critical reaction has often been mixed, but at least the... Read more... |
