Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream
"A comic ballet in two acts"
Synopsis
During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina, and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening… Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a Sylph and its many colorful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash. Captured live on Apr 29, 2012.
Principal Cast8

Svetlana Lunkina
Zina

Mikhail Lobukhin
Pytor

Maria Alexandrova
Ballerina

Ruslan Skvortsov
Ballet Dancer

Denis Savin
Accordionist

Alexei Loparevich
Old Dacha Dweller

Anastasia Vinokur
Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller

Egor Simachev
Gavrilych
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Director

Vincent Bataillon
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