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Article: Grigorovich challenged as master of Bolshoi. (effort to end the 30-year tenure of Yuri Grigorovich as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet Company)
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- Dance Magazine
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- September 1, 1994
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MOSCOW--Years after perestroika dismantled the Soviet empire and introduced a new generation of political leaders, a showdown is taking place at the Bolshoi Theater, home of Bolshoi Ballet.
The general director of the theater, Vladimir Kokonin, recently declared war on its artistic directorate for what he described as careerism and self-aggrandizement at the expense of artistic integrity.
Kokonin has abolished the positions of Yuri Vetrov and Yevgeny Raikov, who were, respectively, general director of Bolshoi Ballet and of Bolshoi Opera. And Kokonin has made it clear that he wishes to eliminate the posts of artistic director, chief choreographer, and ...