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Dateline: 18th March, 2007
The Bolshoi in London The Bolshoi Ballet returns to London for a three-week summer season at the London Coliseum from 30th July to 18th August. Last year’s sold-out season of the Bolshoi Ballet in London was a critical triumph, and it left an enthusiastic public clamouring for more. At this year’s National Dance Awards the Bolshoi won the award for the Best Foreign Dance Company of 2006. The company’s 2007 programme opens with a lavish new recreation of 19th century classic Le Corsaire by the Bolshoi’s Artistic Director Alexei Ratmansky working with ballet master/restorer Yuri Burlaka. The role of Medora on the opening night is danced by the company’s leading dancer Svetlana Zakharova, partnered by Denis Matvienko. International ballet superstar Carlos Acosta appears as a Guest Artist with the Bolshoi dancing the lead role in Yuri Grigorovich’s heroic Soviet-era ballet Spartacus - a work which has become synonymous with the Bolshoi name. The season also includes the British Premiere of Elsinore, a new one-act ballet by the greatly admired British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, in a triple bill with Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, and Asaf Messerer’s Class Concert, a vehicle for the company’s leading soloists, and here revived by his nephew, UK based ballet master Mikhail Messerer. Ratmansky’s full-length ballet The Bright Stream, hailed as ‘the best new ballet to come out of Russia in years’, and voted Best Classical Choreography of 2006 by the Critics’ Circle, returns by popular demand. Also in the season are La Bayadère and Don Quixote whose opening night cast features 21 year-old Natalia Osipova. This season she dances opposite the prodigiously gifted 18 year-old Ivan Vasiliev, who joined the company only last year – and who is widely being compared to the young Baryshnikov. All the Bolshoi’s Principal Artists will dance during the Coliseum season including Maria Alexandrova, Maria Allash, Anna Antonicheva, Sergei Filin, Dmitri Gudanov, Yuri Klevtsov, Svetlana Lunkina, Vladimir Neporozhny, Marianna Ryzhkina, Galina Stepanenko, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Andrei Uvarov, Other soloists of the younger generation include Yan Godovsky, Nina Kaptsova, Yekaterina Krysanova, Andrei Merkuriev, Yekaterina Shipulina, Artyom Shpilevksy, Ruslan Skvortsov, Alexander Volchkov and Anastasia Yatsenko. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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