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Double Story.(Concerto DSCH)(Dance review)
Alexei Ratmansky's new piece for New York City Ballet, "Concerto DSCH," to Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto (the initials are the composer's, in the German form), opens like a beach party, with dancers in swimsuitlike costumes doing sporty maneuvers. Then the lights dim, the concerto's lovely slow movement begins, and a couple--Wendy Whelan and Benjamin Millepied--who had danced together happily during the first movement begin to see life differently. Facing him, she bourrees backward; he runs toward her, falls to his knees, and reaches for her hand, which she withdraws. Finally, she lets him partner her, but their duet has a note of strangeness and difficulty. He ...
- Bolshoi officials challenge CAMI "Bolshoi" tour. (Bolshoi Ballet sues Columbia...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Ben-Itzak, Paul April 1, 1996 700+ words
A group using the name "Bolshoi" for a current tour has no current Bolshoi dancers, no legal connection to the Bolshoi Ballet, and is violating the law by using its name, officials of the Bolshoi Theatre say. Vladimir Shishmolkin, chief of...
- BOLSHOI GROUP HOPES TO PATCH UP REPUTATION.(Spotlight)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) September 12, 1999 700+ words
...Marc Shulgold Not too long ago, the name Bolshoi epitomized all that is great about ballet...the Soviet Union crumbled, so did the Bolshoi Ballet. Rocked by a politically driven...splinter touring group known as Stars of the Bolshoi hit the road, attempting to gain credibility...
- The Bolshoi, Where Art Is History; The Creative Collapse of Moscow's Legendary...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Alexei Parin September 11, 1994 700+ words
The Bolshoi Theater is one of the most beautiful edifices in Moscow. But the Bolshoi Theater is also one of the most striking signs...Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pasternak. The Bolshoi should be an embodiment of all the best characteristics...
- The Bolshoi Is Back.
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine ROCA, OCTAVIO June 1, 2000 700+ words
...tour in a decade THE SCENE inside the Bolshoi Theater is moving, strange and stunning...orchestra pit is Aleksei Fadeyechev, the Bolshoi Ballet's dynamic young director and...Vladimir Vasiliev, creator of some of the Bolshoi Ballet's most unforgettable memories...
- Russia's Renowned Bolshoi Ballet Arrives in North Carolina for Exclusive...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 2, 2009 700+ words
...Chapel Hill, welcomes the world-renowned Bolshoi Ballet to Memorial Hall June 10-14. The Bolshoi Ballet will perform Don Quixote and Swan...performed anywhere else on the tour. The Bolshoi Ballet has not toured in the United States...
- Vladimir Vasiliev: hauling the Bolshoi into the twentieth century - one of the...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Ben-Itzak, Paul February 1, 1996 700+ words
...delicate negotiations. Vasiliev, the former Bolshoi Ballet idol who last spring became the czar of the Bolshoi Theater, was in New York City last fall...George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins for the Bolshoi, and allow that esteemed but calcified...
- Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet.(Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, New York,...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Greskovic, Robert August 1, 1996 700+ words
...impresario who coined the label "Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet," reportedly believed there was...dancers with previous links to Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet toured the U.S. This publication...are members of the recently reorganized Bolshoi troupe, the Moscow administration sought...
- Bolshoi! Artistry & Spectacle; Ballet's Colossus Appeals to Soviets and...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Alan M. Kriegsman July 19, 1987 700+ words
...doesn't come by its partiality for the Bolshoi Ballet accidentally, as we'll see confirmed...imagination of Yuri Grigorovich, the Bolshoi's 60-year-old artistic director...ballet, but it takes a company like the Bolshoi, with its historic emphasis on dramatic...