Bolshoi Ballet

Bolshoi Ballet
Bolshoi Ballet
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General Information
Name Bolshoi Ballet
Local Name Большой театр балета
Year Founded 1776
Principal venue Bolshoi Theatre
Website http://www.bolshoi.ru/en
Senior Staff
Director Anatoly Iksanov
Ballet Director Sergei Filin
Artistic Staff
Deputy Director Ruslan Pronin
Ballet Master in Chief Yuri Grigorovich
Musical Director Vassily Sinaisky
Other
Parent Company Bolshoi Theatre
Orchestra Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Official School Moscow State Academy of Choreography
Formation Principal
Lead Soloist
First Soloist
Soloist
Corps de Ballet

The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest ballet companies, however it only achieved worldwide acclaim by the early 20th century, when Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia. Along with the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, the Bolshoi is recognised as one of the foremost ballet companies in Russia.

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History

The earliest origins of the Bolshoi Ballet, can be found in the creation of a dance school for a Moscow orphanage in 1773. [1] In 1776, dancers from the school were employed by Prince Pyotr Urusov and the English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox, to form part of their new theatre company. [2] Originally performing in privately owned venues, they later acquired the Petrovsky Theatre, which, as a result of fires and erratic redevelopment, would later be rebuilt as today's Bolshoi Theatre.

The early history of the Bolshoi Ballet is very sketchy and, despite staging many famous ballets, it struggled to compete with the reputation of the Imperial Russian Ballet, today's Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg. It was not until the appointment of Alexander Gorsky as Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity, with acclaimed productions of new or restaged ballets including, Don Quixote (1900), Coppélia (1901), Swan Lake (1901), La fille mal gardée (1903), Giselle (1911), Le Corsaire (1912) and La Bayadère (1917). [3]

Notable People

Former Dancers

Directors

Choreographers

Composers

Today

Today the Bolshoi Ballet remains one of the worlds foremost ballet companies, as well as being the largest, with approximately 220 dancers. The company operates a hierarchical system, similar to those used by other leading European ballet companies, with senior dancers ranked as Principals, and descending in order of importance through Lead Soloist, First Soloist, Soloist and finally Corps de Ballet. Due to its size, the company operates two troupes of corps de ballet.

Style

The performance style of the Bolshoi Ballet, is typically identified as being colourful and bold, combining technique and athleticism with expressiveness and dramatic intensity. This style is commonly attributed to Gorsky The Bolshoi has an historical rivalry with St. Petersburg heritage ballet company, the Mariinsky. Both have developed very different performing styles: the Bolshoi has a more colourful and bold approasitych, whereas the Mariinsky is associated with pure and refined classicism.

Dancers

Principal dancers

  • Maria Alexandrova
  • Maria Allash
  • Anna Antonicheva
  • Dmitry Belogolovtsev
  • Semen Chudin
  • Dmitry Gudanov
  • David Hallberg
  • Mikhail Lobukhin
  • Svetlana Lunkina
  • Vladimir Neporozhny
  • Natalia Osipova
  • Marianna Ryzhkina
  • Ruslan Skvortsov
  • Galina Stepanenko
  • Nikolai Tsiskaridze

Lead Soloists

  • Yelena Andrienko
  • Yan Godovsky
  • Anastasia Goryacheva
  • Nina Kaptsova
  • Yekaterina Krysanova
  • Vyacheslav Lopatin
  • Andrei Merkuriev
  • Yekaterina Shipulina
  • Anastasia Yatsenko

First Soloists

  • Anna Antropova
  • Andrei Bolotin
  • Morikhiro Ivata
  • Kristina Kretova
  • Vladislav Lantratov
  • Anna Leonova
  • Ilze Liepa
  • Yuliana Malkhasyants
  • Denis Medvedev
  • Anna Nikulina
  • Artem Ovcharenko
  • Alexander Petukhov
  • Ruslan Pronin
  • Anastasia Stashkevich
  • Gennadi Yanin
  • Irina Zibrova

Soloists

  • Chinara Alizade
  • Vitaly Biktimirov
  • Pavel Dmitrichenko
  • Georgy Geraskin
  • Yulia Grebenshchikova
  • Maria Isplatovskaya
  • Yegor Khromushin
  • Olga Kishnyova
  • Nelli Kobakhidze
  • Alexei Loparevich
  • Andrei Melanyin
  • Anastasia Meskova
  • Anna Rebetskaya
  • Denis Savin
  • Irina Semirechenskaya
  • Andrei Sitnikov
  • Olga Smirnova
  • Olga Suvorova
  • Anna Tikhomirova
  • Alexander Vorobiyov
  • Alexander Voytyuk
  • Victoria Yakusheva (Osipova)
  • Andrei Yevdokimov

Corps de Ballet

The Bolshoi Ballet operates two troupes of corps de ballet, with approximately 120 dancers in total.

References

  1. ^ Info Please
  2. ^ IMG Artists
  3. ^ Ballet Bag, August 12, 2010

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