Svetlana Zakharova and Denis Rodkin talked about the coming premiere of "A Legend of Love" A competition for the best amateur pirouette took place at the same time: ballet fans could film themselves and send this video. The most interesting videos will be included in the film that will be made later. The 20-hour broadcast has become the longest broadcast in YouT ube history. Ballet: behind the scenes. Five famous theatres broadcast their rehearsals on- line Millions of Internet users had a chance to take a look behind the scenes at five famous theatres and see what world ballet stars do before they come onstage. The Bolshoi Theatre together with companies from London, Melbourne, Toronto and San Francisco took part in this large-scale on-line event, marking International Ballet Day. By the way, the American artists confirmed the participation in the on-line marathon in the nick of time; there was a money issue. The San Francisco Ballet addressed its audience on-line and asked to fundraise $30, 000 in order to make the broadcast possible. The fans did not let the company down and the company took part in this international ballet celebration. The live broadcast from the rehearsal halls continued on Y ouTube channel for the whole day; the views could watch the unique footage, ask the artists questions and upload videos of themselves trying to do a pirouette. According to the NTV reporter Anton Volsky, the idea to organize such an internet- marathon from behind the scenes at the most popular theatres around the world appeared in London: two years ago the Royal Ballet organized a similar nine-hours broadcast. The viewers demonstrated tremendous interest to this project. Therefore, this time it was decided to expand the horizons and to make the project international. The Australian Ballet (Melbourne) was the first participant of the project. The company rehearsed "Swan Lake", "The Nutcracker" and "La Bayadere". When the Royal Ballet started its broadcast, the audience was surprised to see some characteristic features of the Russian ballet. The Bolshoi's ballet stars were interested in watching a rehearsal that they themselves were not actually participating in. A month for dancing Gazeta.ru made a calendar of ballet and modern dance events for October 2014 /…/ "A Legend of Love" October 23 - 25 at 7 p.m. and October 26 at 6 p.m., Moscow, the Bolshoi Theatre Onstage at the Bolshoi Theatre the main hero will cut through the rock and the young tsarina will suffer from love and jealousy. The main theatre of the country brings back to its repertoire one of Yuri Grigorovich's first ballets. When the choreographer created this production, his imagination was free like a bird; when the production Mass media about the Theatre premiered in 1961 the ballet world was at the choreographer's feet (at that time no one was thinking about what the ballet master, who was named the main hope of Soviet choreography, would do with it). "A Legend of Love" was created by the composer Arif Melikov and the choreographer Yuri Grigorovich for the Mariinsky (Kirovsky) Theatre; four years later the production was brought to the Bolshoi Theatre and remained in its repertoire for a long time. But now it will be revived; there will be a new cast and the sister of the young tsarina in the ancient Eastern city will fall ill again. The tsarina will turn into an ugly woman in order to save her sister, and then both women will fall in love with the same man, who, naturally, will choose the more beautiful one. The lonely tsarina will do a bridge pose ( in 1961 the party leaders considered this pose to be very inappropriate), the chase group, which was sent to follow the happy couple, will spin the snake pattern and the audience will freeze, like it did in 1961, and it will seem that there are so many things ahead. The Stanislavski Award announced its laureates On September 30 the laureates of the 19 International Stanislavski Award for outstanding contribution to the development of the theatre art. /…/ The Bolshoi Theatre General Director Vladimir Urin received the Stanislavski Award for his contribution to the development of the Russian theatre. /…/ The award ceremony will take place in Moscow in December. The ballet "Requiem", choreographed by Boris Eifman, was presented in Moscow Photo: Kommersant/ Yuri Martianov The St. Petersburg Boris Eifman Ballet presented the two-act ballet "Requiem" at the Bolshoi Theatre New Stage during the International Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival, which took place in Moscow. The choreographer started working on this October, 3 2014 Newsletter

ballet in 1991; back then he staged the one-act ballet to the music of the Requiem by W.A. Mozart. The ballet symbolized the breakage of the old world and the birth of a whole new country. 23 years later Eifman reconsidered this production and created a second act, based on the poem of A. Akhmatova and the music of D. Shostakovich's

Chamber Symphony (originally the 8 String Quartet "In Memory of Victims of

Fascism and War"). The ballet premiere in St. Petersburg marked the 70 anniversary of the end of Leningrad blockade; the Moscow premiere marked the Babi Yar tragedy. The first act of the ballet "Requiem" is set in the time and place described in the poem; as the curtain opens, we see the sad procession of the afflicted that are walking towards the prison gates; behind those gates there is hell on the earth with unfair sentences, broken lives and, worse still, fatal uncertainty. The stage is decorated with black cloth; female dancers perform their solos of exhausted bodies, which look like a tragic sarabande. The ballet basically has no plot; however, Eifman singles out certain groups of archetypical characters: Mother, Son, Wife, Husband and Family. The production tells about their dramas. The crucifixion and the lamentation of the Son are the centerpieces of the production. In the first act the choreographer presents metaphysical reflections about life and death; the leading motive is the Mother that pulls behind her a horrible burden, her dead child. To the finale of Mozart's Requiem the ballet artists perform Eifman's signature pirouettes and agonize all together; at the same time, they do not lose hope and see light in the end of the tunnel. In 1991 the newly choreographed production of "Requiem" was more convincing, but today it still makes a strong impression. However, it is not very clear, what this funeral service is for and what to hope for. On the Bolshoi Theatre official pages in the social networks we uploaded exclusive photographs that were taken during the live broadcast of the World Ballet Day. The Bolshoi Theatre took part in this unique event and granted Y ouT ube channel viewers an opportunity to look behind the scenes and inside the rehearsal halls of the theatre. Svetlana Zakharova and Denis Rodkin are rehearsing "A Legend of Love" together with Y uri Grigorovich Bolshoi Theatre in the Internet Denis Medvedev Anna Tikhomirova will dance "La Sylphide" on the Historic Stage Photos: Damir Yusupov W e also congratulated Alexander Soloviev, the Bolshoi Theatre's conductor,

who celebrates his birthday on October 2

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October, 3 2014 , 7 For articles published 1 October 2014 Publications around the world report about the successful World Ballet Day on 1 October that included the Australian Ballet and London (Royal Ballet), then Moscow (Bolshoi Ballet), Toronto (National Ballet of Canada) and the USA (San Francisco Ballet). Publications included Daily Review, The Moscow Times, The Australian, The Herald Sun and others. In Australia more than 100 dancers from dance schools across Melbourne took their daily ballet class at Federation Square, led by ballet master and former Australian Ballet star Steven Heathcote. Dmitri Hvorostovsky will give a charity concert in the Kremlin The opera singer Dmitri Hvorostovsky will gather his friends at the Kremlin Palace in

Moscow: on October 4 he will give a charity concert to help orphans and severely ill children. As Dmitri Hvorostovsky said in his interview to ITAR-T ASS, Pavel Astakhov, the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation, helped to organize this concert. The opera singer said: "Pavel Astakhov is my friend; it would have been strange if we had not organized such a project". He also mentioned that he can relate to the theme of childhood and children very well. He said: "I have four children and one stepdaughter". The singer also might create his own charity foundation in future. The charity concert at the Kremlin Palace will star the Bolshoi Theatre's soloists Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Anna Aglatova, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Pavel Valuzhin and Constantine Orbelian, as well as the orchestra and the choir of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre and the orchestra of The Central music school (College) at the P.I. T chaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Dmitri Hvorostovsky said: "My audience, which also will take part in our charity celebration, are my great friends". Pavel Astakhov said that all money raised would be given to "Rusfond", one of the major charity foundations in Russia. He said: "There are 47 children that need treatment and that we will help. We would like this concert to become an important event of this year. If we join efforts, we will be able to help any child and any family". First concerts of the cycle "Hvorostovsky and Friends" took place in Moscow and in St. Petersburg in 2006.In brief Samara mass media: Kristina Kretova and Vladimir Shklyarov will perform in Samara

The 24 Festival of Classical Ballet named after Alla Shelest will take place at the Samara opera and ballet theatre from October 23 till November 2. W e continue to tell our readers about the main stars of this event. This time Svetlana Humarian, the founder and the director of the festival, talks about Kristina Kretova and Vladimir Shklyarov. "Miss Virtuosity" Kristina Kretova she graduated from the Moscow State Choreographic Academy in 2002 and joined the Kremlin Ballet Theater, where she danced solo and leading parts. Her repertoire included parts of Odette-Odile, Giselle, Kitri, Esmeralda, Susanna in "Figaro" to the music by Mozart and others. Giselle was the first big role that she prepared together with Nina Semizorova (who now is her pedagogue-repetiteur at the Bolshoi Theatre); this role still is her favorite. Ekaterina Maximova gave her the "Triumph" prize for this part. The year of 2014 is particularly remarkable in Kristina's career. She joined the Bolshoi Ballet in the season of 201 1-2012; in 2014 she has won the main prize, "Miss

V irtuosity", at the 13 International Ballet Festival in St. Petersburg and has been included in the list "25 to Watch", published by "Dance Magazine". The best St. Petersburg restorers of the ballet classics recreated a fragment from the ballet "The Bluebeard", choreographed by Marius Petipa a hundred years ago, especially for her and Semyon Chudin. They performed this piece at the closing ceremony of one festival project. She became the constant participant of the "Russian Seasons of the XXI century" project, initiated by the Charity foundation n.a. Maris Liepa, the company SAV Entertainment and the Kremlin Ballet Theater. She appeared in the roles of the Firebird (The Firebird by I. Stravinsky, after M. Fokine, revived by A. Liepa), Tamar (T amar by M. Balakirev, staged by A. Liepa, Y. Smoriginas). Kristina Kretova performs both modern and classical choreography; however, she considers herself to be a classical ballerina. It will be the first time that she will take part in the Festival of Classical Ballet named after Alla Shelest.