Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, shunned since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, hopes this will herald a return to the global stage for the crown jewel of Russian culture.
MOSCOW, Russia – Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, grounded by COVID-19 and then shunned in the West since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, returns to international touring next week for the first time since the pandemic with a trip to Beijing.
“I don’t think it’s a secret that China is one of a few countries that support and continue to cooperate with us,” the ballet’s artistic director, Makhar Vaziev, said in an interview with Reuters in the theatre last week. The theater, founded in 1776 by Empress Catherine the Great, will showcase excerpts of some of its best-known ballet works in two gala performances in Beijing, followed by a three-day staging of the 19th century ballet“I’m very pleased that we’ll finally have a guest performance abroad. We’re looking forward to it,” Principal Dancer Elizaveta Kokoreva told Reuters in between rehearsals.
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