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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Ballet company based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bolshoi_Theatre" title="Bolshoi Theatre">Bolshoi Theatre</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.bolshoi.ru">http://www.bolshoi.ru</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #dedede">Senior staff</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Director</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Urin" title="Vladimir Urin">Vladimir Urin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ballet Director</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Makhar Vaziev</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #dedede">Artistic staff</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Deputy Director</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Galina_Stepanenko" title="Galina Stepanenko">Galina Stepanenko</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Music Director</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Tugan_Sokhiev" title="Tugan Sokhiev">Tugan Sokhiev</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ballet Master</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Grigorovich" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuri Grigorovich">Yuri Grigorovich</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #dedede">Other</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent company</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bolshoi_Theatre" title="Bolshoi Theatre">Bolshoi Theatre</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Orchestra</th><td class="infobox-data">Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official school</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_Academy_of_Choreography" title="Moscow State Academy of Choreography">Moscow State Academy of Choreography</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data">Principal<br />Lead soloist<br />First soloist<br />Soloist<br />Corps de ballet</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Bolshoi Ballet</b> is an internationally renowned <a href="/wiki/Classical_ballet" title="Classical ballet">classical ballet</a> company based at the <a href="/wiki/Bolshoi_Theatre" title="Bolshoi Theatre">Bolshoi Theatre</a> in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest <a href="/wiki/Ballet_company" title="Ballet company">ballet companies</a>. In the early 20th century, it came to international prominence as Moscow became the capital of <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Soviet Russia</a>. The Bolshoi has been recognised as one of the foremost ballet companies in the world. It has a branch at the Bolshoi Ballet Theater School in <a href="/wiki/Joinville" title="Joinville">Joinville</a>, Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aankomst_solisten_van_het_Bolshoiballet_op_Schiphol,_de_danseressen_op_het_platf,_Bestanddeelnr_911-3243.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Aankomst_solisten_van_het_Bolshoiballet_op_Schiphol%2C_de_danseressen_op_het_platf%2C_Bestanddeelnr_911-3243.jpg/220px-Aankomst_solisten_van_het_Bolshoiballet_op_Schiphol%2C_de_danseressen_op_het_platf%2C_Bestanddeelnr_911-3243.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Aankomst_solisten_van_het_Bolshoiballet_op_Schiphol%2C_de_danseressen_op_het_platf%2C_Bestanddeelnr_911-3243.jpg/330px-Aankomst_solisten_van_het_Bolshoiballet_op_Schiphol%2C_de_danseressen_op_het_platf%2C_Bestanddeelnr_911-3243.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Aankomst_solisten_van_het_Bolshoiballet_op_Schiphol%2C_de_danseressen_op_het_platf%2C_Bestanddeelnr_911-3243.jpg/440px-Aankomst_solisten_van_het_Bolshoiballet_op_Schiphol%2C_de_danseressen_op_het_platf%2C_Bestanddeelnr_911-3243.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3681" data-file-height="2463" /></a><figcaption>Soloists of the Bolshoi Ballet at the <a href="/wiki/Schiphol" class="mw-redirect" title="Schiphol">Schiphol</a> airport, 9 June 1960</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest iteration of the Bolshoi Ballet can be found in the creation of a dance school for a Moscow orphanage in 1773.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1776, dancers from the school were employed by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Prince_Pyotr_Vasilyevich_Urusov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Urusov (page does not exist)">Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Urusov</a> and English theatrical entrepreneur <a href="/wiki/Michael_Maddox" title="Michael Maddox">Michael Maddox</a> to form part of their new theatre company.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Originally performing in privately owned venues, they later acquired the Petrovsky Theatre, which, as a result of fires and erratic redevelopment, would later be rebuilt as today's Bolshoi Theatre. While some guest dancers come and go from other prestigious ballet companies, such as <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Mariinsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_Ballet_Theatre" title="American Ballet Theatre">American Ballet Theatre</a>, most company dancers are graduates of the academy. In 1989, Michael Shannon was the first American ballet dancer to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and join the Bolshoi Ballet company.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite staging many famous ballets, it struggled to compete with the reputation of the Imperial Russian Ballet, today's <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Mariinsky Ballet</a> of <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a>. It was not until the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gorsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Gorsky">Alexander Gorsky</a> as Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity, with acclaimed productions of new or restaged ballets including <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Quixote_(ballet)" title="Don Quixote (ballet)">Don Quixote</a></i> (1900), <i><a href="/wiki/Copp%C3%A9lia" title="Coppélia">Coppélia</a></i> (1901), <i><a href="/wiki/Swan_Lake" title="Swan Lake">Swan Lake</a></i> (1901), <i><a href="/wiki/La_fille_mal_gard%C3%A9e" title="La fille mal gardée">La fille mal gardée</a></i> (1903), <i><a href="/wiki/Giselle" title="Giselle">Giselle</a></i> (1911), <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Corsaire" title="Le Corsaire">Le Corsaire</a></i> (1912) and <i><a href="/wiki/La_Bayad%C3%A8re" title="La Bayadère">La Bayadère</a></i> (1917).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Soviet leadership's preference for uncomplicated moral themes in the arts was demonstrated in <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Grigorovich" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuri Grigorovich">Yuri Grigorovich</a>'s appointment as director in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/23/bolshoi-ballet-black-swan">1964</a>. Grigorovich held his position until 1995, at which point a series of directors, including Boris Akimov, <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Ratmansky" title="Alexei Ratmansky">Alexei Ratmansky</a>, Yuri Burlaka and <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Filin" title="Sergei Filin">Sergei Filin</a>, brought more modern dance performance ideas to the company.<sup id="cite_ref-Mackrell_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mackrell-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Repertoire">Repertoire</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Repertoire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><i>A Hero of Our Time</i>, Yuri Possokhov</li> <li><i>A Legend of Love</i>, <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Grigorovich" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuri Grigorovich">Yuri Grigorovich</a></li> <li><i>Anna Karenina</i>, <a href="/wiki/John_Neumeier" title="John Neumeier">John Neumeier</a></li> <li><i>Anyuta</i>, Vladimir Vasiliev</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_(ballet)" title="Apollo (ballet)">Apollo</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/George_Balanchine" title="George Balanchine">George Balanchine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carmen_Suite_(ballet)" title="Carmen Suite (ballet)">Carmen Suite</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Alonso" title="Alberto Alonso">Alberto Alonso</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Copp%C3%A9lia" title="Coppélia">Coppélia</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Marius_Petipa" title="Marius Petipa">Marius Petipa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Enrico_Cecchetti" title="Enrico Cecchetti">Enrico Cecchetti</a>; Revived by <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Vikharev" title="Sergei Vikharev">Sergei Vikharev</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Don_Quixote_(ballet)" title="Don Quixote (ballet)">Don Quixote</a></i>, Marius Petipa and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gorsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Gorsky">Alexander Gorsky</a>; Revived by Alexei Fadeyechev</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/%C3%89tudes_(ballet)" title="Études (ballet)">Études</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Harald_Lander" title="Harald Lander">Harald Lander</a></li> <li><i>Forgotten Land</i>, <a href="/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Kyli%C3%A1n" title="Jiří Kylián">Jiří Kylián</a></li> <li><i>Frank Bridge Variations</i>, <a href="/wiki/Hans_van_Manen" title="Hans van Manen">Hans van Manen</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Giselle" title="Giselle">Giselle</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Jean_Coralli" title="Jean Coralli">Jean Coralli</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jules_Perrot" title="Jules Perrot">Jules Perrot</a>; Version of Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i>Ivan the Terrible</i>, Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jewels_(ballet)" title="Jewels (ballet)">Jewels</a></i>, George Balanchine</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Bayadere" class="mw-redirect" title="La Bayadere">La Bayadere</a></i>, Marius Petipa; Version of Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pharaoh%27s_Daughter" title="The Pharaoh's Daughter">La Fille du pharaon</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Lacotte" title="Pierre Lacotte">Pierre Lacotte</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_fille_mal_gard%C3%A9e" title="La fille mal gardée">La Fille mal gardée</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gorsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Gorsky">Alexander Gorsky</a>; Version of Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Sylphide" title="La Sylphide">La Sylphide</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/August_Bournonville" title="August Bournonville">August Bournonville</a>; Version of <a href="/wiki/Johan_Kobborg" title="Johan Kobborg">Johan Kobborg</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lady_of_the_Camellias" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady of the Camellias">Lady of the Camellias</a> (La Dame aux camelias)</i>, <a href="/wiki/John_Neumeier" title="John Neumeier">John Neumeier</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Corsaire" title="Le Corsaire">Le Corsaire</a></i>, Marius Petipa; Version of <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Ratmansky" title="Alexei Ratmansky">Alexei Ratmansky</a> and Yuri Burlaka</li> <li><i>Nureyev</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Nutcracker" title="The Nutcracker">The Nutcracker</a></i>, Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i>Ondine</i>, Vyacheslav Samodurov</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Onegin_(Cranko)" title="Onegin (Cranko)">Onegin</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/John_Cranko" title="John Cranko">John Cranko</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Raymonda" title="Raymonda">Raymonda</a></i>, Marius Petipa; Version of Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_(Prokofiev)" title="Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)">Romeo and Juliet</a></i>, Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i>Romeo and Juliet</i>, Alexei Ratmansky</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Russian_Seasons" title="Russian Seasons">Russian Seasons</a></i>, Alexei Ratmansky</li> <li><i>Short Time Together</i>, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spartacus_(ballet)" title="Spartacus (ballet)">Spartacus</a></i>, Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Swan_Lake" title="Swan Lake">Swan Lake</a></i>, Marius Petipa; Version of Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i>Symphony of Psalms</i>, <a href="/wiki/Jiri_Kylian" class="mw-redirect" title="Jiri Kylian">Jiri Kylian</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bright_Stream" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bright Stream">The Bright Stream</a></i>, Alexei Ratmansky</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cage_(ballet)" title="The Cage (ballet)">The Cage</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Robbins" title="Jerome Robbins">Jerome Robbins</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flames_of_Paris" title="Flames of Paris">The Flames of Paris</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Vainonen" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasily Vainonen">Vasily Vainonen</a>, Version of Alexei Ratmansky</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Age_(Shostakovich)" title="The Golden Age (Shostakovich)">The Golden Age</a></i>, Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(ballet)" title="The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)">The Sleeping Beauty</a></i>, Marius Petipa; Version of Yuri Grigorovich</li> <li><i>Taming of the Shrew</i>, <a href="/wiki/Jean-Christophe_Maillot" title="Jean-Christophe Maillot">Jean-Christophe Maillot</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_staff">Notable staff</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notable staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dancers">Dancers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Dancers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115" /><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galina_Ulanova" title="Galina Ulanova">Galina Ulanova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marina_Semyonova" title="Marina Semyonova">Marina Semyonova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olga_Lepeshinskaya_(dancer)" title="Olga Lepeshinskaya (dancer)">Olga Lepeshinskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Mordkin" title="Mikhail Mordkin">Mikhail Mordkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Tikhomirov" title="Vasily Tikhomirov">Vasily Tikhomirov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yekaterina_Geltzer" title="Yekaterina Geltzer">Yekaterina Geltzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asaf_Messerer" title="Asaf Messerer">Asaf Messerer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maya_Plisetskaya" title="Maya Plisetskaya">Maya Plisetskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Gusev" title="Pyotr Gusev">Pyotr Gusev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksey_Yermolayev" title="Aleksey Yermolayev">Aleksey Yermolayev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Fadeyechev" title="Nikolai Fadeyechev">Nikolai Fadeyechev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maris_Liepa" class="mw-redirect" title="Maris Liepa">Maris Liepa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ekaterina_Maximova" title="Ekaterina Maximova">Ekaterina Maximova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Vasiliev_(ballet_dancer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir Vasiliev (ballet dancer)">Vladimir Vasiliev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalia_Bessmertnova" title="Natalia Bessmertnova">Natalia Bessmertnova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludmila_Semenyaka" title="Ludmila Semenyaka">Ludmila Semenyaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadezhda_Pavlova" title="Nadezhda Pavlova">Nadezhda Pavlova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joy_Womack" title="Joy Womack">Joy Womack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svetlana_Adyrkhaeva" title="Svetlana Adyrkhaeva">Svetlana Adyrkhaeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marina_Kondratyeva" title="Marina Kondratyeva">Marina Kondratyeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Timofeeva" title="Nina Timofeeva">Nina Timofeeva</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nina_Semizorova&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nina Semizorova (page does not exist)">Nina Semizorova</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:Семизорова, Нина Львовна">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irek_Mukhamedov" title="Irek Mukhamedov">Irek Mukhamedov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Godunov" title="Alexander Godunov">Alexander Godunov</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alla_Mikhalchenko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alla Mikhalchenko (page does not exist)">Alla Mikhalchenko</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:Михальченко, Алла Анатольевна">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Ananiashvili" title="Nina Ananiashvili">Nina Ananiashvili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Belogolovtsev" title="Dmitry Belogolovtsev">Dmitry Belogolovtsev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalia_Osipova" title="Natalia Osipova">Natalia Osipova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svetlana_Lunkina" title="Svetlana Lunkina">Svetlana Lunkina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Gudanov" title="Dmitry Gudanov">Dmitry Gudanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Antonicheva" title="Anna Antonicheva">Anna Antonicheva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Tsiskaridze" title="Nikolay Tsiskaridze">Nikolay Tsiskaridze</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Directors">Directors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Directors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gorsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Gorsky">Alexander Gorsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Tikhomirov" title="Vasily Tikhomirov">Vasily Tikhomirov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Urin" title="Vladimir Urin">Vladimir Urin</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conductors">Conductors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Conductors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Anikhanov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrei Anikhanov (page does not exist)">Andrei Anikhanov</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Аниханов, Андрей Анатольевич">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Fayer" title="Yuri Fayer">Yuri Fayer</a></li> <li>Algis Shuraitis</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Choreographers">Choreographers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Choreographers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rostislav_Zakharov" title="Rostislav Zakharov">Rostislav Zakharov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Lavrovsky" title="Leonid Lavrovsky">Leonid Lavrovsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Lopukhov" title="Fyodor Lopukhov">Fyodor Lopukhov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yury_Grigorovich" title="Yury Grigorovich">Yury Grigorovich</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Composers">Composers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Composers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dimitri_Shostakovich" class="mw-redirect" title="Dimitri Shostakovich">Dimitri Shostakovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aram_Khachaturian" title="Aram Khachaturian">Aram Khachaturian</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Company_structure">Company structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Company structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Today the Bolshoi Ballet remains one of the world's foremost ballet companies, in addition to being one of the largest, with approximately 220 dancers. The word "bolshoi" means "big" or "grand" in Russian. The company operates on a hierarchical system, similar to those used by other leading European ballet companies, with senior dancers ranked as principals, and descending in order of importance through lead soloist, first soloist, soloist and finally, corps de ballet. Due to its size, the company operates two troupes of corps de ballet. </p><p>In 2000, the Bolshoi Ballet opened its first Ballet Academy outside Russia, in <a href="/wiki/Joinville" title="Joinville">Joinville</a>, Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performance_style">Performance style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Performance style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The performance style of the Bolshoi Ballet is typically identified as being colourful and bold, combining technique and athleticism with expressiveness and dramatic intensity. This style is commonly attributed to <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Alexeyevich_Gorsky" title="Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky">Alexander Gorsky</a>. Historically there has been a fierce rivalry with the St. Petersburg Heritage Ballet Company, the <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Mariinsky</a>. Both have developed very different performing styles: the Bolshoi has a more colourful and bold approach, whereas the Mariinsky is associated with more pure and refined classicism. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dancers_2">Dancers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Dancers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Principal_dancers">Principal dancers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Principal dancers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Female</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115" /><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Allash" title="Maria Allash">Maria Allash</a> (working under contract)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Kaptsova" title="Nina Kaptsova">Nina Kaptsova</a> (working under contract)</li> <li>Elizaveta Kokoreva</li> <li>Alena Kovaleva</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ekaterina_Krysanova" title="Ekaterina Krysanova">Ekaterina Krysanova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Nikulina" title="Anna Nikulina">Anna Nikulina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evgenia_Obraztsova" title="Evgenia Obraztsova">Evgenia Obraztsova</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eleonora_Sevenard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eleonora Sevenard (page does not exist)">Eleonora Sevenard</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; 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font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Беляков, Артемий Сергеевич">ru</a>]</span></li> <li>Semyon Chudin</li> <li>Egor Gerashchenko</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladislav_Lantratov" title="Vladislav Lantratov">Vladislav Lantratov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Lobukhin" title="Mikhail Lobukhin">Mikhail Lobukhin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyacheslav_Lopatin" title="Vyacheslav Lopatin">Vyacheslav Lopatin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artem_Ovcharenko" title="Artem Ovcharenko">Artem Ovcharenko</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denis_Rodkin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Denis Rodkin (page does not exist)">Denis Rodkin</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Родькин, Денис Александрович">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Savin" title="Denis Savin">Denis Savin</a></li> <li>Dmitry Smilevsky</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Igor_Tsvirko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Igor Tsvirko (page does not exist)">Igor Tsvirko</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; 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[...] I repeatedly received such propositions to share the beds of <a href="/wiki/Business_oligarch" title="Business oligarch">oligarchs</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-BolshoiBrothel_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BolshoiBrothel-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> American dancer <a href="/wiki/Joy_Womack" title="Joy Womack">Joy Womack</a> echoed this concern when she left the company after being told that, to secure solo roles, she must either pay $10,000 or "start a relationship with a sponsor."<sup id="cite_ref-Files_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Files-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2013, a <a href="/wiki/Sulfuric_acid" title="Sulfuric acid">sulfuric acid</a> attack on art director <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Filin" title="Sergei Filin">Sergei Filin</a> once again steeped the company in scandal. Bolshoi dancer <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Dmitrichenko" title="Pavel Dmitrichenko">Pavel Dmitrichenko</a> was convicted of organizing the attack and was sentenced to six years in prison. Reasons for the attack include corruption within the company.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, 25-year-old ballet dancer Olga Demina mysteriously went missing. In September 2020, Russian investigators announced that they believe Demina may have been killed in a blackmail plot by Malkhaz Dzhavoev, whom she was dating and was allegedly her "manager".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2017, the Bolshoi Theatre cancelled the premiere of a ballet about openly gay Soviet dancer <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Nureyev" title="Rudolf Nureyev">Rudolf Nureyev</a>. The Director General claimed that it was due to poor dancing quality; however, principal dancer <a href="/wiki/Maria_Alexandrova" title="Maria Alexandrova">Maria Alexandrova</a> claimed it was the first sign of a 'new era' of censorship.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the first time a show has been pulled in such a way since the collapse of the Soviet Union, sparking rumours about the motivation behind the move.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_productions_of_Swan_Lake_derived_from_its_1895_revival" title="List of productions of Swan Lake derived from its 1895 revival">List of productions of Swan Lake derived from its 1895 revival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_Academy_of_Choreography" title="Moscow State Academy of Choreography">Moscow State Academy of Choreography</a>, affiliate school</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Mariinsky Ballet</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolshoi_Ballet&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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Philippines">Ballet Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Ballet" title="Guangzhou Ballet">Guangzhou Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwangju_City_Ballet" title="Gwangju City Ballet">Gwangju City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Ballet" title="Hong Kong Ballet">Hong Kong Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_National_Ballet_Company" title="Iranian National Ballet Company">Iranian National Ballet Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Ballet" title="Israel Ballet">Israel Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K-ballet" title="K-ballet">K-ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korea_National_Ballet" title="Korea National Ballet">Korea National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ballet_of_China" title="National Ballet of China">National Ballet of China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_National_Theatre_Tokyo" title="New National Theatre Tokyo">New National Theatre Tokyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Ballet_Theatre" title="Philippine Ballet 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Ireland">Ballet Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Romand" title="Ballet Romand">Ballet Romand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet Zürich">Ballet Zürich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Ballets_Persans" title="Les Ballets Persans">Les Ballets Persans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes">Ballets Russes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barcelona_Ballet" title="Barcelona Ballet">Barcelona Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayerisches_Staatsballett" title="Bayerisches Staatsballett">Bayerisches Staatsballett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9jart_Ballet" title="Béjart Ballet">Béjart Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berlin_State_Ballet" title="Berlin State Ballet">Berlin State Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Royal_Ballet" title="Birmingham Royal Ballet">Birmingham Royal Ballet</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bolshoi Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charleroi_Danses" title="Charleroi Danses">Charleroi Danses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cork_City_Ballet" title="Cork City Ballet">Cork City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Danish_Ballet" title="Royal Danish Ballet">Royal Danish Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Ballet" title="Donetsk Ballet">Donetsk Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_National_Ballet" title="Dutch National Ballet">Dutch National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Eifman" title="Boris Eifman">Eifman Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_National_Ballet" title="English National Ballet">English National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_National_Ballet" title="Finnish National Ballet">Finnish National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Ballet_of_Flanders" title="Royal Ballet of Flanders">Royal Ballet of Flanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhishvili_Georgian_National_Ballet" title="Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet">Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Kyiv_Ballet" title="Grand Kyiv Ballet">Grand Kyiv Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_National_Opera" title="Greek National Opera">Greek National Opera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamburg_Ballet" title="Hamburg Ballet">Hamburg Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_National_Ballet" title="Hungarian National Ballet">Hungarian National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv Ballet">Kyiv Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_City_Ballet" title="Kyiv City Ballet">Kyiv City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Modern-Ballet" title="Kyiv Modern-Ballet">Kyiv Modern-Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Scala_Theatre_Ballet" title="La Scala Theatre Ballet">La Scala Theatre Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lviv_Theatre_of_Opera_and_Ballet" title="Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet">Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Mariinsky Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhailovsky_Theatre" title="Mikhailovsky Theatre">Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldova_National_Opera_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldova National Opera Ballet">National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Ballets_de_Monte_Carlo" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Ballets de Monte Carlo">The Monte-Carlo Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Opera_and_Ballet_of_Bulgaria" title="National Opera and Ballet of Bulgaria">National Opera and Ballet of Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ballet" title="Northern Ballet">Northern Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_National_Opera_and_Ballet" title="Norwegian National Opera and Ballet">Norwegian National Opera and Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novosibirsk_Opera_and_Ballet_Theatre" title="Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre">Novosibirsk Theatre Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odesa_Opera_and_Ballet_Theatre" title="Odesa Opera and Ballet 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Ballet">American Repertory Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anaheim_Ballet" title="Anaheim Ballet">Anaheim Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aspen_Santa_Fe_Ballet" title="Aspen Santa Fe Ballet">Aspen Santa Fe Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Ballet" title="Atlanta Ballet">Atlanta Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Festival_Ballet" title="Atlanta Festival Ballet">Atlanta Festival Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Arizona" title="Ballet Arizona">Ballet Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Austin" title="Ballet Austin">Ballet Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_BC" title="Ballet BC">Ballet BC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Des_Moines" title="Ballet Des Moines">Ballet Des Moines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Fantastique" title="Ballet Fantastique">Ballet Fantastique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Hispanico" title="Ballet Hispanico">Ballet Hispanico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Magnificat!" title="Ballet Magnificat!">Ballet 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href="/wiki/Cleveland_Ballet_(founded_2014)" title="Cleveland Ballet (founded 2014)">2014</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Ballet" title="Colorado Ballet">Colorado Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complexions_Contemporary_Ballet" title="Complexions Contemporary Ballet">Complexions Contemporary Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuban_National_Ballet" title="Cuban National Ballet">Cuban National Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dance_Theatre_of_Harlem" title="Dance Theatre of Harlem">Dance Theatre of Harlem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayton_Ballet" title="Dayton Ballet">Dayton Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greensboro_Ballet" title="Greensboro Ballet">Greensboro Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston_Ballet" title="Houston Ballet">Houston Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joffrey_Ballet" title="Joffrey Ballet">Joffrey Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Ballet" title="Kansas City Ballet">Kansas City Ballet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Ballet" 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