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Bolshoi

December 2022

  • Aurora's Wedding<br>15th July 1950: Beryl Grey (as Aurora) and John Field dancing in a production of 'Aurora Wedding'. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5083 - For The Wedding Of Aurora - pub. 1950 (Photo by Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Dame Beryl Grey obituary

    One of the most celebrated British ballerinas of her generation who later dedicated herself to the training of dancers

June 2022

  • Pussy Riot

    Cutting works by Russian artists is ‘stupid’, says Pussy Riot member

    Maria Alyokhina calls on artistic community to unite over Ukraine and repression in Russia

May 2022

  • The Bolshoi theatre gave no reason for the abrupt cancellations.

    Russia’s Bolshoi theatre cancels shows by directors who spoke out over Ukraine

    Moscow venue drops Timofey Kulyabin’s opera Don Pasquale and Kirill Serebrennikov’s ballet Nureyev

April 2022

  • The GES-2 contemporary arts centre on the banks of the Moskva river in Moscow.

    Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west

  • Kazan, Russia. 22nd Dec, 2020. Ballet dancer Olga Smirnova performs in the Swan Lake production staged as part of the 33rd Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Festival at the Musa Dzhalil Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Credit: Yegor Aleyev/TASS/Alamy Live News<br>2DTYXME Kazan, Russia. 22nd Dec, 2020. Ballet dancer Olga Smirnova performs in the Swan Lake production staged as part of the 33rd Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Festival at the Musa Dzhalil Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Credit: Yegor Aleyev/TASS/Alamy Live News

    ‘I couldn’t keep it inside’: ballet star Olga Smirnova on quitting the Bolshoi and fleeing Russia

March 2022

  • Of Love And Rage Premiere Dinner Hosted By Elizabeth Segerstrom<br>COSTA MESA, CA - MARCH 7: Alexei Ratmansky attends Of Love And Rage Premiere Dinner Hosted By Elizabeth Segerstrom at Leatherby's Cafe Rouge on March 7, 2020 in Costa Mesa, CA. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

    Alexei Ratmansky: Russian cultural figures must oppose war in Ukraine

    Distinguished ballet choreographer takes issue with views of his friend, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected to London in 1970.

    Dancers and dissidents: how ballet became a political football between east and west

    As the conflict in Ukraine intensifies, Russia’s dance corps are under scrutiny. But ballet has long been the “secret weapon” in Russia’s diplomatic arsenal

    • ‘A line has been drawn’: Olga Smirnova quits Bolshoi Ballet over Ukraine war

    • ‘Impossible’: Bolshoi music director quits over calls to denounce Ukraine invasion

    • The show can’t go on: Russian arts cancelled worldwide

October 2021

  • A police car outside Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre.

    Bolshoi performer dies in accident on stage during opera

    Man, 37, said to be killed by falling decor in set change during Rimsky-Korsakov opera

June 2021

  • Rachel Armstrong poses in Red Square in Moscow.

    From the agencies
    British ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Moscow – in pictures

  • Violetta Elvin<br>1953: Ballerina, Violetta Elvin (Violetta Prokhorova) and John Field (John Greenfield) dancing in Swan Lake. (Photo by Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Violetta Elvin obituary

May 2021

  • The Bolshoi ballet premieres its production Krakatukin Moscow in January 2020.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about ballet

    From Noel Streatfeild to David Hallberg, this is a literature of passion and madness, ambition and addiction

September 2020

  • Staff in red and white uniforms and masks check tickets in the foyer

    Bolshoi's return stumbles after performers test positive for Covid-19

    Realities of the pandemic intervene in Russian theatre’s bold plans for new season

January 2020

  • Russian Ballet v2

    The long read
    ‘They will destroy you’: in Putin’s Russia, how far can an artist go?

    The long read: A decade ago, a new spirit of tolerance of the avant garde blossomed in Russia. But these days, it’s impossible to know where the lines are – as the country’s most celebrated director discovered to his cost

December 2019

  • Svetlana Zakharova in Gabrielle Chanel at London Coliseum.

    Svetlana Zakharova review – Bolshoi ballerina cuts chic shapes as Chanel

    A stylish riff on Coco Chanel’s place in ballet history and a regal mocking of Handel make a double bill where style outshines insight

November 2019

  • Last year’s Nutcracker by Birmingham Royal Ballet; this year’s version has been revised to be more sensitive

    Blackface and Fu Manchu moustaches: does ballet have a race problem?

    From the Chinese scene in Nutcracker to the Moor in Petrushka, are some ballets now offensively outdated? We ask big names in dance if they should be preserved, changed – or binned

August 2019

  • Igor Tsvirko (Basilio) and Margarita Shrainer (Kitri).

    Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote review – makes the heart sing

  • Grace Horler in Scottish Ballet's production of Helen Pickett's The Crucible.

    The week in dance: The Crucible; The Bright Stream – review

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