Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream
- Released on
- Runtime
- 121 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Svetlana Lunkina
- Mikhail Lobukhin
- Maria Alexandrova
- Ruslan Skvortsov
- Denis Savin
- Alexei Loparevich
- Anastasia Vinokur
- Egor Simachev
- Ksenia Pchelkina
- Anastasiya Meskova
- Alexander Voytyuk
- Alexander Vorobiyov
- Batyr Annadurdyev
- Chinara Alizade
- Yulia Lunkina
- Svetlana Pavlova
- Maria Prorvich
- Anna Tikhomirova
- Victoria Yakusheva
- Alexei Matrakhov
- Anton Savichev
- Roman Simachev
- Roman Tselishchev
- Pyotr Kazmiruk
- Anton Kuznetsov
- Sergei Minakov
- Andrey Rybakov
- Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Director
- Vincent Bataillon
Producers
- François Duplat