Russian Revolutionary


By CHIP BROWN
Published: May 25, 2008

...While the comrades in the street were waxing nostalgic about the Russian Revolution, Alexei Ratmansky, the 39-year-old artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, was busy trying to get the French Revolution off the ground — or, rather, a highly stylized re-creation of it. His leotard-clad troops were deployed in several rehearsal studios adjacent to the Bolshoi Theater...