Movie

Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

2012 2h 1m Released

MusicComedy

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