Bolshoi
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... |
Irek Mukhamedov dances again in LondonTuesday, 20 March 2012Former Royal Ballet leading star and Bolshoi hero Irek Mukhamedov is coming out of retirement to perform in Peter Schaufuss's Tchaikovsky Trilogy at the London Coliseum 23-28 July. He will be playing the roles of Rothbart in Swan Lake, the Queen’s... Read more... |
Russian Ballet Icons Gala: Celebrating Anna Pavlova, London ColiseumMonday, 05 March 2012
Fokine, the founding choreographer of the Ballets Russes, wrote on Anna Pavlova’s death, “Pavlova will be the dream of many generations, a dream of beauty, of the gladness of movement.” The superb array of international stars of ballet last night... Read more... |
2011: Ballerinas, Cuts and the Higgs Boson TheorySaturday, 31 December 2011
The year’s best arts story was not the cuts (which isn’t art, it’s politics), but the appearance in Edinburgh of a mysterious series of 10 magical little paper sculptures, smuggled into the city’s libraries by a booklover. No name, no Simon Cowell... Read more... |
Ashton's Romeo and Juliet, London ColiseumWednesday, 13 July 2011
Like planets crossing in the skies, light years apart, but by some ocular illusion coinciding, this conjunction of the two most thrilling young Bolshoi stars in the world and Frederick Ashton’s rarely staged Romeo and Juliet really must be seen.... Read more... |
Interview Special: Bolshoi Dancers Natalia Osipova & Ivan VasilievSunday, 10 July 2011
“What I love about her is her emotion, her true emotion. She’s a ball of energy and emotion all together, quite an amazing thing. From the first time I saw her, I thought I want her to be my girlfriend.” Ivan Vasiliev, the young Bolshoi Ballet... Read more... |
Star dancer Sergei Filin becomes new Bolshoi chiefFriday, 18 March 2011
Sergei Filin, one of the Bolshoi Ballet’s recent male stars, has been appointed as the new artistic director of the massive Russian company on a five-year contract. The appointment brings to a swift culmination a terrible week for the Bolshoi,... Read more... |
Bolshoi leader quits in porn scandalWednesday, 16 March 2011
The Bolshoi Ballet's company manager, Gennady Yanin, has resigned after pornographic pictures appeared on the internet that were linked to him, just as he was being considered to take on the job of artistic director, which became vacant that day... Read more... |
Bolshoi prima and violinist Repin have babyFriday, 18 February 2011
The Bolshoi Ballet’s prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova gave birth in Moscow yesterday to a baby girl, the child of the celebrated violinist Vadim Repin. Weighing 3.1 kilograms, the baby is named Anna.Zakharova, 31, a former star at the Mariinsky... Read more... |
Eugene Onegin, Bolshoi Opera, Royal Opera HouseFriday, 13 August 2010
Nobody knows any real happiness, and human kindness is rarely to be found, in Dmitri Tcherniakov's Bolshoi production of Tchaikovsky's "lyric scenes" - the most disciplined and real piece of operatic teamwork I've seen ever to come from the Russian... Read more... |
Don Quixote, Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera HouseSaturday, 07 August 2010
There is a moment when you see dancers at their absolute peak that notches a bit of history in your memory - you never forget when you see it happen. In my area of contemporary choreography you can’t measure it in those terms but you can with... Read more... |
