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...effect is potent and compelling. Back in Moscow, where she is preparing to travel to Edinburgh for the Dorian Gray premiere, Kolosova describes the reaction of the 91-year-old former Bolshoi ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya to Bourne's Swan Lake. Too frail to make it backstage from her box, the legendary People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. asked for a message to be sent to Bourne. "She wanted to tell him that this was the future," Kolosova recalls. "That this was the way forward...
...years, the Waifish Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova entranced critics with her quick, intense energy and poetic style in classic and contemporary productions, including Giselle, Swan Lake and Spartacus. In 1995 she took on another role when her husband, Bolshoi artistic director Yuri Grigorovich, quit amid a dispute with management over plans for his replacement. Bessmertnova and her fellow dancers refused to perform for a night. The historic strike caused the company's first cancellation in more than two centuries. She was 66 and reportedly had kidney trouble...
...memory of Vosgerchian, a late music professor. “There is a still a surreal feeling,” Everett said. “I am very honored to be associated with her.” Everett, a bass trombonist, has had an accomplished career, playing with the Bolshoi Ballet, the Boston Pops, and the bands of Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, and Tommy Dorsey. But the lure of teaching brought the Grammy-nominated conductor to Harvard in 1971 to serve as director of the University band. “Teaching allowed me to balance my career as a professional...
Despite this emphasis on new work, Ratmansky is staying true to one of his original wishes - to keep the Bolshoi's illustrious history alive in its dance. Bright Stream, he notes, was based on Muscovite traditions, and he will continue to produce classical pieces, including this season's Don Quixote. "The classical ballet is so perfect in itself - it can't die away," he says. So far, Ratmansky's strategy is paying off. If the smiles and good cheer at its Moscow headquarters are any clue, Ratmansky has pulled the Bolshoi out of its deep Dostoyevskian funk. "There...
...recent night at the New Stage, a stream of patrons filed in for the premiere of The Ballets of George Balanchine - the legendary classical choreographer whom Ratmansky cites as a prime inspiration. While tourists posed for photos in the lobby, balletomanes lined up to purchase Bolshoi magnets and T shirts, and ushers hawked commemorative calendars, Ratmansky slipped unnoticed into a back booth. Ignoring the commotion and scribbling notes, he kept his eye trained solely on his ballerinas, who wore the Bolshoi's traditional monochrome leotards and leaped and jetéed to Balanchine's original choreography. The performance was exquisite...