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Article: The rise and rise of Vladimir Vasiliev
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 24, 1995
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It's been a long time, but now he's back. And he means
business. Helen Womack meets the Bolshoi's new artistic director
Perestroika has replaced stagnation at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre.
Vladimir Vasiliev - their very own wunderkind turned rebel - has
taken over from Yuri Grigorovich as artistic director. Critics
admit that Grigorovich will go down in history as a great
choreographer and ballet master, but complain that he held power
for too long. Towards the end of his 30-year reign, they say, he
was cramping the style of his artists with his authoritarian ways,
and boring his audience with his stubborn refusal to revolutionise
the repertoire.
For journalists, the Bolshoi under Grigorovich ...