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.

• Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer
• Vincent BataillonDirector

• Svetlana LunkinaZina
• Mikhail LobukhinPytor
• Maria AlexandrovaBallerina
• Ruslan SkvortsovBallet Dancer
• Denis SavinAccordionist
• Alexei LoparevichOld Dacha Dweller
• Anastasia VinokurAnxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller
• Egor SimachevGavrilych
• Ksenia PchelkinaGayla
• Anastasiya MeskovaMilkmaid
• Alexander VoytyukTractor Driver
• Alexander VorobiyovHighlander