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Article: Pirouettes at the Bolshoi.(de-Stalinization of the Bolshoi Ballet)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 27, 1995
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RUSSIAN ballet is in its worst state since 1919, when half of the dancers at St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre has emigrated, the Imperial School was unheated and its few pupils did not have enough to eat. Even the great Bolshoi ballet is in trouble. It has still to recover from the shock of the messy departure two months ago of Yuri Grigorovich, who had been in charge for 30 years. Is recovery possible?
Mr Grigorovich was the toast of the dance world during his early years at the Bolshoi. His imaginative stagings of such ballets as "Spartacus", "Legend of Love", "The Stone Flower" and "Ivan the Terrible" won him popular as well as critical acclaim. But during his ...