Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

A comic ballet in two acts

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