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Article: Grigorovich and Bessmertnova. (ousted artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet Yuri Grigorovich and wife Natalya Bessmertnova)
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- Dance Magazine
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- July 1, 1995
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LONDON - A British Bolshoi? That seems to be the plan according to Yuri Grigorovich, the recently deposed artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Just two weeks after his reluctant retirement in March and the suspension of his wife and company prima ballerina, Natalya Bessmertnova, for her participation in a strike, the couple turned up in London - on a stand at the Dance World '95 trade fair. The wares that they were promoting were bolshoi (big) indeed: a [pounds]20-million ($32-million) venture called the World Centre for the Performing Arts (WCPA), which would provide an eight- or ten-year training course for ballet and theater students.
The WCPA, financed in its ...