Bolshoi Ballet - America Tour 2004

Rosa · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:51 pm

Bolshoi Ballet is coming to the United States later this year. Does anyone know their casting information? I search for it on the web but have no luck.

Thanks.

nysusan · **Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:14 pm

No casting news yet? The Boston dates are only a month out!

Azlan · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:00 am

Unfortunately, the casting is almost as elusive as a comprehensive list of tour dates and locations... However, I believe someone will be posting all that info in the near future.

nysusan · **Posted:** Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:58 pm

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it! :p

ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

From Christine Temin in the Boston Globe: The Bolshoi Ballet makes the leap back to Boston

Quote:

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The Bolshoi is as famous for coups as Russia itself is, and in January of this year, Alexei Ratmansky, a 35-year-old dancer and choreographer, became the new director of the renowned company.

While Ratmansky is something of an unknown quantity, the ballets he’s bringing to Boston are not. They are two of the greatest masterpieces of the 19th century: “Raymonda” and “Don Quixote.”

(The article notes: still no information on casting.)

Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:30 am

Tour details for the Bolshoi in the US 2004

Marc Haegeman's delightful website "For ballet lovers only" (actually, I'd like everyone to look at it) has full details of the forthcoming US tour.

Click here for full details

<small>[ 19 September 2004, 10:39 AM: Message edited by: Stuart Sweeney ]</small>

LadyRosa · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:36 pm

O thanks a lot! The "For Ballet Lovers Only" site is very informative!

nysusan · **Posted:** Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:19 pm

Casting for the U.S tour has been posted on another dance website. I've copied it here, please feel free to delete if that's against the rules!

BOSTON, Wang Center
6 Oct Raymonda Stepanenko-Filin-Belogolovzev
7 Oct Raymonda Allash-Volchkov-Arifulin
8 Oct DQ Alexandrova-Klevzov
9 Oct DQ Gracheva-Filin
10 Oct DQ Antonicheva-Belogolovtsev

MINNEAPOLIS, Northrop Auditorium
22 Oct Romeo Meskova-Godovsky-Petukhov-Klevtsov
23 Oct DQ Alexandrova-Filin
24 Oct DQ-mat. Shipulina-Belogolovtsev
24 Oct DQ-ev. Stepanenko-Klevtsov

SEATTLE, Paramount Theatre
27 Oct Romeo Alexandrova-Savin-Medvedev-Klevtsov
28 Oct Romeo Meskova-Godovsky-Petukhov-Lavrenyk
29 Oct. DQ Stepanenko-Klevtsov
30 Oct. DQ Gratcheva-Filin
31 Oct. DQ-mat. Shipulina-Belogolovtsev

BERKELEY, Zellerbach Auditorium
3 Nov Romeo Alexandrova-Savin-Medvedev-Klevtsov
4 Nov Romeo Meskova-Godovsky-Petukhov-Klevtsov
5 Nov Raymonda Antonicheva-Filin-Belogolovtsev
6 Nov Rayonda-mat Allash-Volchkov-Arifulin
6 Nov Raymonda Gracheva-Skvortsov-Klevtsov
7 Nov Raymonda-mat Stepanenko-Filin-Belogolovtsev

CHICAGO, Auditorium Theatre
10 Nov. DQ Stepanenko-Klevtsov
11 Nov DQ Alexandrova-Filin
12 Nov Raymonda Gratcheva-Skvortsov-Belogolovtsev
13 Nov Raymonda-mat. Allash-Volchkov-Arifulin
13 Nov Raymonda Antonicheva-Filin-Klevtsov
14 Nov Raymonda-mat Gratcheva-Skvortsov-Belogolovtsev

(Courtesy of the Bolshoi Theatre press office)

Rosa · **Posted:** Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:41 pm

Thank you, Nysusan, for providing the casting information. It's great. I will book the shows performed by Maria Alexandova and Nadya Gracheva.

By the way, do you have the web address where you found the casting? I'd like to take a look at that site.

Francis Timlin · **Posted:** Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:42 am

In The Christian Science Monitor, Margaret Willis interviews current AD Alexei Ratmansky on the Bolshoi's new version of Romeo and Juliet, poised to embark upon a monthlong North American tour:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1001/p12s02-almp.html

ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

From Suzanne Sataline in the Boston Globe: Under new management, Bolshoi Ballet is reborn

Quote:

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. Alexei Ratmansky, 35, is a Russian who had danced and staged ballets in Russia, Canada, and Denmark and has already brought new ideas and forms to the creaky Bolshoi stage. When he begins a North American tour in Boston this week, he will escort a fresh crop of dancers who, even Russian critics say, are dazzling with promise.

Arina · **Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:06 am

Nadezda Gracheva will replace Stepanenko in "Raymonda" on 6 October in Boston.

Amelia · **Joined:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:01 pm **Posts:** 7

...can be found on:
http://www.bolshoi.org/news/usa2004.htm

Amelia · **Joined:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:01 pm **Posts:** 7

American press on Bolshoi 2004 Tour is compiled on
http://www.bolshoi.org/Pressa/publications.htm

ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

Review from opening night in Boston. Theodore Bale in the Boston Herald: Look out, the Russians are bombing at the Wang

Quote:

Watching the Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra perform “Raymonda” last night at the Wang Theatre was like drinking an expensive wine with some people you don’t know very well, but you’re hoping to impress. They exclaim how superior it tastes and you nod in agreement, even though you’re really thinking to yourself, “but not that much better than the $20 bottle I had just last week.”

And from Christine Temin the in Boston Globe: Bolshoi’s ‘Raymonda’ is well worth the time

Quote:

....The Bolshoi “Raymonda” goes on for three hours, and makes you understand why Balanchine and others took the best bits of the music and created tight works with names like “Raymonda Variations.” The Bolshoi version isn’t attuned to a 21st century pace; to get anything out of it you have to slow yourself down, as if you were spending an afternoon looking at passing clouds.


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