Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

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 Zina

Mikhail Lobukhin Pytor

Maria Alexandrova Ballerina

Ruslan Skvortsov Ballet Dancer

Denis Savin Accordionist

Alexei Loparevich Old Dacha Dweller

Anastasia Vinokur Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller

Egor Simachev Gavrilych

Ksenia Pchelkina Gayla

Anastasiya Meskova Milkmaid

Alexander Voytyuk Tractor Driver

Alexander Vorobiyov Highlander

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