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

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

Crew

Pavel Sorokin

Conductor

Dmitri Shostakovich

Original Music Composer

Boris Messerer

Set Designer

François Duplat

Producer

Elena Zaytseva

Costume Design

Adrian Piotrovskiy

Story

Alexander Rubtsov

Lighting Design

Alexei Ratmansky

Choreographer

Vincent Bataillon

Director

Fyodor Lopukhov

Story

Clips & Videos

Bolshoi in cinema season 16-17 | EP2: THE BRIGHT STREAM