Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

Music, Comedy · 2012

During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina, and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening… Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a Sylph and its many colorful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash. Captured live on Apr 29, 2012.

Starring

Dmitri Shostakovich, Svetlana Lunkina, Vincent Bataillon, Mikhail Lobukhin, Fyodor Lopukhov, Maria Alexandrova, Pavel Sorokin, Ruslan Skvortsov

Director

Vincent Bataillon