THE BRIGHT STREAM FROM THE BOLSHOI BALLET MOSCOW
OVERVIEW
Live on Sunday, April 29 at 11am EDT
Running time: 125 minutes including 1 intermission
10:40 - 11:00am Views of Moscow
11:00 - 11:05am Introduction by Katerina Novikova
11:05 - 11:50am Act 1
11:50am - 12:15pm Intermission
12:15 - 1:10pm Act 2
Laughter rings across the theatre (NYTimes) in The Bright Stream, a comical ballet that celebrates the maddening, baffling nature of love. The story, by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov, tells of members of a Russian farm collective in the 1930's, and what happens when a group of visiting performers descend on their harvest festival. With such a loveable, positive plot, its hard to see why Stalin banned this work in 1936 and why it wasnt staged again until 2003. Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky uses Shostakovichs robust folk music to tell this zany tale, broadcast from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Starring Svetlana Lunkina, Mikhail Lobukhin, Maria Alexandrova, Ruslan Skvortsov, Denis Savin and Alexey Loparevich.
