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Out of Russia: Stalin of the ballet ripe for a fall in the Bolshoi revolution
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MOSCOW - Russia has been - more or less - a free country for
some time now, but little islands of dictatorship persist. One is
at the Bolshoi ballet where, critics say, the artistic director and
choreographer, Yuri Grigorovich, still rules with a Stalin-like
grip. Even here, it seems, the winds of democracy may be about to
start blowing.
Earlier this week President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree doing
away with the old Soviet system of jobs for life at the Bolshoi and
introducing Wester...
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The Bolshoi's Bitter Rebellion; Ballet's Stars Desert in Long-Running Feud With Management
The Washington Post
; It could almost form the plot for one of Yuri Grigorovich's epic ballets. Some Bolshoi theater employees, claiming they are treated like slaves by a tyrannical management, decide to revolt. The rebellion is crushed, but the luster of the world's most celebrated ballet company is tarnished. The feud
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Decline and fall of the Bolshoi: dancing. (Bolshoi Ballet Company)
The Economist (US)
; A CERTAIN sort of Soviet intellectual never took much interest in how many bombs and missiles his country possessed. For such people, the proof that the Soviet Union was a superpower lay in the brilliance of the ballet and opera at the Bolshoi theatre. Today the Bolshoi mirrors the humiliating
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SOVIET DANCE TROUPE BRINGS CAPITALISM TO THE BOLSHOI
The Boston Globe
; NEW YORK - The Bolshoi is going capitalist. Yuri Grigorovich, artistic director of Moscow's classical dance megacompany, announced yesterday that he is forming a new 60-member troupe that will operate without the state subsidies that keep all other major classical companies in the Soviet Union
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The Bolshoi, Where Art Is History; The Creative Collapse of Moscow's Legendary Theater
The Washington Post
; The Bolshoi Theater is one of the most beautiful edifices in Moscow. But the Bolshoi Theater is also one of the most striking signs of the decay of Russian culture today. It is the emblematic theater of Russia, absorbing Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, the deep-voiced glory of Chaliapin, the dance of
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Pirouettes at the Bolshoi.(de-Stalinization of the Bolshoi Ballet)
The Economist (US)
; RUSSIAN ballet is in its worst state since 1919, when half of the dancers at St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre has emigrated, the Imperial School was unheated and its few pupils did not have enough to eat. Even the great Bolshoi ballet is in trouble. It has still to recover from the shock of the
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