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The Bolshoi’s Jewels, with Smirnova the glittering centrepiece

February 20, 2014 – 10:07 am

There were at least two compelling reasons to see the Bolshoi Balletā€™s performance of Balanchineā€™s Jewels, filmed in Moscow last

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged America Grand Prix, Bolshoi Ballet, Christian Lacroix, Elena Zaitseva, Emeralds, George Balanchine, Jewels, Karinska, Katerina Novikovaa, Mariinsky Ballet, Merrill Ashley, New York City Ballet, Olga Smirnova, Paris Opera Ballet, Paul Boos, Royal Ballet, Rubies, Sandra Jennings, Semyon Chudin, Sergei Filin, Sergei Polunin, The Bolshoi costume designs for Jewels are by Elena Zaitseva and the sets designer is Alyona Pikalova, Vaganova | Comments (2)

The miracle that is Olga Smirnova

August 15, 2013 – 7:14 am

Leo Schofield writes for dancelines from London ā€Itā€™s unspeakably bad for so many reasons that the injured Bolshoi Ballet director

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Bolshoi Ballet, Clement Crisp, Ekaterina Shipulina, George Balanchine, Jewels, Les Flammes de Paris, Olga Smirnova, Paris Opera Ballet, Svetlana Zakharova | Comments (0)

The law of unforeseen consequences unfolds at the Bolshoi Ballet

March 10, 2013 – 11:13 am

Many years ago a newspaper editor introduced me to the “law of unforeseen consequencesā€¯. It’s a distant cousin of Murphyā€™s

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Anzhelina Vorontsova, Bolshoi Ballet, Clement Crisp, Jewels, Le Corsaire, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Pavel Dmitrichenko, Sergei Filin, Yuri Grigorovich | Comments (1)