“From the second day I joined the Bolshoi in 2011 as ballet director I felt that something awkward was happening inside the Bolshoi, and in its closest orbit – all sorts of dirty intrigues, leaks of compromising materials into mass media and into the Internet, as if somebody in the highest echelons of Bolshoi’s management had an agenda to give us blows and destroy us.”
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A Business Columnist Looks At The Bolshoi Brouhaha
“All this is gripping stuff, but what does any of it have to do with business? Why is Schumpeter, whose subject is people in suits, fussing about people in tights? One answer is that peculiar institutions can tell us a lot about more run-of-the-mill ones. And dysfunction is more common in the business world than you might think.”
Sulfuric Acid Was Not Enough: New Internet Attack On Sergei Filin
“The campaign against the Bolshoi Theatre’s artistic director Sergei Filin, who recently suffered an acid attack, is showing no signs of slowing. As Filin undergoes a series of operations in Germany to save his eyesight, a bogus statement in his name surfaced today on the internet.”
Dancing With Philosophy At Lines Ballet
“Ask Alonzo King about the 170 ballets he has choreographed for the Alonzo King Lines Ballet over the past 30 years and he answers with philosophical questions.”
Harvard MBA Students Help South African Ballet Company Hang On
Johannesburg’s South African Mzansi Ballet has been trying to get by without state funding for a dozen years, and the struggle doesn’t get any easier. Last month, six Harvard Business School students came to get some real-world experience and offer some marketing expertise. Together, they found some surprising things – for instance, that there’s a potential fan base for European ballet in Soweto.
The Stabilization Of Sergei Polunin
One year ago, when he walked out on Britain’s Royal Ballet, the company that trained him, Sergei Polunin was a mess: late-night drinking, morning crying jags, his sensational dancing ability beginning to slip. Now, living in Moscow with a company to call home and a near-ideal mentor, he seems to be back on the road to greatness.
Is This The Number One Suspect In The Bolshoi Acid Attack?
Journalist Natalia Krainova gives an overview of some of the backstage rancor at the Bolshoi, including a closer look at the difficult relationship between ballet director Sergei Filin, victim of the attack, and his chief (or at least loudest) rival, star dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
Vladimir Malakhov To Leave Helm Of Berlin State Ballet
The Russian-born former ABT star will step down as the company’s director in summer 2014. In a Q&A, he indicates that the city’s culture secretary, André Schmitz, would not renew his contract and wants to replace him with someone more oriented toward contemporary dance. (At least, Malakhov observes, he gets to leave with his face intact.)
No, This Ballet Doesn’t Feature A Singing Crab
John Neumeier’s 2005 Little Mermaid “features a mermaid who gets her tail violently torn off by an evil Sea Witch. Consequently, she spends some of her time onstage in a wheelchair, doesn’t get to live happily ever after with her prince and… often looks deliberately uncoordinated and tortured.”
Bolshoi Dancer Moves To Canada Because Of Threats
The prima ballerina says that threats against her and her family in Russia have nothing to do with the Bolshoi.