Bolshoi Ballet Academy and Bolshoi Ballet News Highlights
Julian MacKay
September 2009 - Bozeman Daily Chronicle How many people know exactly what they want to with their lives at the age of 11? And how many people are willing to move halfway around the world, away from their families, to spend most of every day practicing something that requires intense concentration and discipline at an age when most kids are riding bikes ... read more
Talentos de Exportación
July 2009 - Asunción: En Espanol... read more
A Pasos del Bolshoi
July 2009 - Asunción: En Espanol... read more
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Class, Revised
June 2009 - Dance magazine: The Bolshoi Ballet Academy returns to NYC and Middlebury, CT, for its third annual summer intensive, June 29 - Aug 7. New York University's Tisch School of the Arts hosts two advanced levels and a male class while the Westover School in Middlebury accomodats elementary and intermediate levels. Open to students ages 9-22, the intensive steeps dancers in the Bolshoi Technique... read more
Bolshoi Ballet - 'Le Corsaire' - From Ballet.co
June 2009 - Ballet Magazine: The Kennedy Center Opera House was entirely sold-out for opening night of the Bolshoi Ballet's sparklingly new production of Le Corsaire - a ballet so grand in scale that at times it seemed the spacious stage of the Opera House wasn't big enough to hold the enormous cast of this magnificent dance extravaganza. ... read more
Avast! Bolshoi's 'Le Corsaire' Flaunts an Aesthetic Treasure - From The Washington Post
June 2009 - The Washington Post: Surely girls have never been chased so joyfully, nor have they disarmed their men so utterly, nor have pirates been so piratey than in the Bolshoi Ballet's "Le Corsaire."... read more
Bolshoi Embraces the Pre-Soviet Past - From The Wall Street Journal
June 2009 - The Wall Street Journal: How the mighty have mellowed. Since first touring the U.S. in 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet has been known here for the heroic, sometimes heavy and often thrilling tone of its presentations. But during its recent sold-out weekend of performances at the Kennedy Center, the 233-year-old Moscow troupe showed a different dimension. Its three-act, three-hour production of "Le Corsaire," first mounted in 2007 by the Bolshoi's then artistic director Alexei Ratmansky and its current artistic director Yuri Burlaka, was light-filled and old-world pretty.... read more
Local teen Ballerina dances on international stage
December 2008 - News Channel 5 WPTV: Kristina Bentz recently returned from a two-week trip to Russia. She was chosen for the rare opportunity to briefly study and perform at the renowned Bolshoi Ballet Academy. She performed an award winning pas-de-deux to earn the spot to the Bolshoi. Four U.S. dancers were chosen. Kristina and two male dancers made the trip... read more
Readers' Donations Help Teen Attend Ballet Academy
November 2008 - L.A. Times: After a story about 14-year-old Matthew Leonardi ran in The Times, he began receiving letters and donations from all around the country. He left Saturday for the Bolshoi school in Russia... read more
Bolshoi Ballet Academy gives young dancer the chance of a lifetime
October 2008 - L.A. Times: It's a long way from San Bernardino to Moscow, but Matthew Leonardi, 14, is making the leap. In his tough San Bernardino neighborhood, Matthew Leonardi doesn't talk much of his graceful pirouettes or evenings spent dancing with girls in pink tutus... read more
Five Weeks of Ballet Lessons, the Bolshoi Way
October 2008 - N.Y. Times: Passers-by outside the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center on a blustery morning in late March may have noticed a stream of women ushering girls into this unfinished building on West 60th Street. Keen observers might have noticed that the women came in two distinct sartorial categories: one marked by black leather, heels, fur, dyed blond hair and makeup, the other by carelessly thrown-on tops, loose jeans, flats and very little makeup... read more
Bolshoi Raises Barre for City Kids
July 2007 - NY Daily News New York City kids are saying 'Da' to ballet classes. A summer master class, taught through the Moscow based Bolshoi Ballet Academy, hopes to turn New Yorkers into dancing diplomats during a five-week course. Alden James, president of the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, sees this program as a United Nations type endeavor... read more
