Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream (2012)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Alexander Voytyuk

Tractor Driver

Alexander Vorobiyov

Highlander

Director & Crew

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