Bolshoi Theatre

Ex-Bolshoi star Natalia Osipova joins The Royal Ballet

Monday, 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...

Bolshoi full casting up as box office opens

Saturday, 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...

Still Shocking - The Rite of Spring 100 Years On

Monday, 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...

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...

Opinion: Crime and moral evasion at the Bolshoi Ballet

Thursday, 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...

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...

Bolshoi Ballet chief attacked with acid - his sight is threatened

Sunday, 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,...

Q&A Special: Choreographer & Ballet-Restorer Pierre Lacotte

Saturday, 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...

DVD: The Alexander Sokurov Collection

Tuesday, 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...

Irek Mukhamedov dances again in London

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Former 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...

Russian Ballet Icons Gala: Celebrating Anna Pavlova, London Coliseum

Monday, 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...

2011: Ballerinas, Cuts and the Higgs Boson Theory

Saturday, 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...