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
as Zina
Mikhail Lobukhin
as Pytor
Maria Alexandrova
as Ballerina
Ruslan Skvortsov
as Ballet Dancer
Denis Savin
as Accordionist
Alexei Loparevich
as Old Dacha Dweller
Anastasia Vinokur
as Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller
Egor Simachev
as Gavrilych
Ksenia Pchelkina
as Gayla
Anastasiya Meskova
as Milkmaid
