Dance;The Magnetic Bolshoi's `Ivan' the Wonderful

The Washington Post | July 26, 1990| | Copyright

The Bolshoi Ballet, which opened a week-long engagement at Wolf Trap Tuesday night, did just what the Bolshoi is supposed and expected to do. Performing Artistic Director Yuri Grigorovich's full-length "Ivan the Terrible," it drew a large crowd, estimated at 5,000-gigantic by ballet standards-and proceeded to thrill and bedazzle the patrons with its theatrical flamboyance and ostentatiously acrobatic dancing.

As a phenomenon of mass entertainment this is readily understandable, and accords with the long-established precedent of American appreciation of the Bolshoi.

In artistic terms, ...

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