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...been a long time since Russia seen such a melee. On Saturday at noon, defying the city authorities' ban on organizing an event, over 5000 people in St. Petersburg joined the anti-Putin "March of the Discontented," launched by the Other Russia opposition movement, a group of improbable allies brought together by Putin's repressive intransigence. The demonstrators marched in St. Petersburg, which happens to also be President Vladimir Putin's birthplace and showcase for his G-8 peers. A showcase Russian city hadn't seen that size of a protest for a decade. The violent street clash not only...
Enter Ratmansky. Born in St. Petersburg, trained at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography and boasting professional experience with Ukraine's Kiev Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg and seven years with the Royal Copenhagen Ballet, he had already staged his productions at the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg, as well as a new production of Anna Karenina in Copenhagen. His knowledge of Western dance and his strength as a choreographer were, according to Bolshoi Theater director general Anatoly Iksanov, just what the company needed to reclaim its standing in the newly modernized world of ballet. With impressive choreography credentials...
...complement its new repertoire, the Bolshoi also has a new venue. A smaller mint green theater called the New Stage completes the trifecta of Bolshoi buildings on Teatralnaya Square. Eerily similar in appearance to the Old Mariinsky Theater building in St. Petersburg, home to the Bolshoi's longtime rival the Mariinsky (formerly the Kirov) Ballet, it has, since 2005, become the company's interim Moscow home. Ratmansky says the Old Theater, whose renovation is costing hundreds of millions of dollars, will reopen in fall 2008. In the meantime, he says, "we do tour quite a bit," including a recent trip...
...other victims who starved during the Nazi siege of Leningrad; his faded artistic prominence was enough to secure him no more than a grave of his own. His works resurfaced only under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika reform when in 1988 the State Russian Museum in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) mounted an exhibition of Filonov's extraordinary pictures - sometimes dark, at other times euphoric - that later traveled to Paris and Düsseldorf. After that there were only a couple of small shows in Russia, until last summer, when St. Petersburg's Russian Museum, assisted by Moscow-based Proactive...
...Born into a poor working-class Moscow family and trained as an artist in St. Petersburg, Filonov was part of the singular explosion of avant-garde art that blossomed in early 20th century Russia from the likes of Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky, Supremacist Kasimir Malevich, Surrealist Marc Chagall and Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin. But Filonov never stayed with any school except his own, which he called "analytical art." It was in the eulogy to Filonov offered by the poet Alexei Kruchenykh, Futurism's major theoretician, that the exhibition's curators found their title, Witness of the Unseen...