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Fiery footwork from Margarita Shrainer and Igor Tsvirko kick life into Fadeyechev’s version of Don Quixote. 

Дон Кто? Лучше всего забыть о Сервантесе, когда речь идет о балете «Дон Кихот», особенно о постановке Алексея Фадеечева трехлетней давности, впервые показанной в театре Ковент-Гарден в 2016

This bright, brief and breezy production is occasionally hard to follow, but nonetheless soaked in rustic charm.

Near perfection from the corps de ballet represent the Bolshoi at its very best during its Royal Opera House residency.

Subtlety has no place here. Go for the explosive male dancing and two contrasting female leads.

Большой, храбрый, напористый. Если вы хотите посмотреть, как танцуют балет «Спартак», к вашим услугам только одна труппа: Большой балет.

The Bolshoi delivers a big, bold, and explosive Spartacus in the way that only the Bolshoi can.

The Bolshoi are beautiful but uncertain dancers of Balanchine in Brisbane.

The Bolshoi dancers Anna Tikhomiova and Artemy Belyakov shine in the stylish and poetic version of La Sylphide by Johan Kobborg.

If it were a film, I’d say Maillot’s Shrew is more of a trashy Franco-Russian Rom-Com with literary pretensions than an art film.

Being able to see all these dancers together was a rare opportunity to compare how differently they work and what each of them brings to classical ballet that is unique to them.

As dance experiences go, this one was hard to beat.

After being banned in Soviet times, The Bright Stream made a glorious comeback in a new version by Alexei Ratmansky. 

Etudes is a welcome addition to the Bolshoi's repertoire.

Lantratov played Onegin with considerable nuance and intensity.

Mikhail Lobukhin gives a stunning performance as Ivan in the bolshoi's production of Ivan The Terrible

The Bolshoi chooses musicality and technique over special effects with Yuri Grigorovich's beloved classic.

The Bolshoi's soloists perform La Bayadère with distinction 

Given the unappealing score and the lack of narrative and meaninful choreography, the dancers perform heroically.

While the ballet's libretto is dated, The Golden Age can, when performed by great artists, be both an entertaining and emotionally satisfying ballet.

Ratmansky adds choreographic and aesthetic sense to a ballet that doesn't have much to say.

The Bolshoi Ballet's London residency continues with Alexei Ratmansky's restaging of The Flames of Paris

Unveiled in 2014, Jean-Christophe Maillot's The Taming of the Shrew has been an enormous hit in Moscow. Here it received a triumphant London première as part of the Bolshoi's three-week Royal Opera House residency.

Everyone in the Bolshoi company encapsulates the fiery spirit of Don Quixote

Olga Smirnova's performance as Raymonda, at the Bolshoi, was nothing short of extraordinary. 

The Bolshoi Ballet's Nutcracker's simple narrative spans both acts with no extraneous characters and activities.

The 30 members of the male corps de ballet almost stole the show at the Bolshoi with the astonishing power of their dancing, alongside a leading quartet of soloists in Legend of Love.

A unique collaboration between choreographer Yuri Possokhov and theatre director Kirill Serebennikov who adapted Lermontov's novel for the Bolshoi's new stage.

The Bolshoi ballet presents again Neumeier's Lady of the Camellias, after its succesful entry into the repertoire in 2014.

Performing their prize winning The Taming of the Shrew in the Dance Open Festival at St Petersburg, this is a new-look Bolshoi company indeed!

Balanchine’s Jewels is the perfect showcase piece to display the excellent dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Alexei Ratmansky's The Flames of Paris shows the Bolshoi Ballet in top form at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

The fourth Étoile Gala in Tokyo showed many faces of Paris Opera Ballet étoiles as well as stars from other companies, and with its intimate atmosphere and hand-made feeling, won the hearts of Japanese audience. 

Week two of the Bolshoi Ballet's New York engagement featured the effervescent Maria Alexandrova as Kitri in a mostly successful Don Quixote. Alexandrova and Lantratov (as Basilio) lit up the stage of the Koch Theater (Lincoln Centre Festival, New York)  

Svetlana Zakharova's Odette–Odile rises Bolshoi ballet's otherwise disappointing Swan Lake, with a luminous performance by the Bolshoi Orchestra, as part of Lincoln Center Festival. 

A Soviet sun shines down on Ratmansky's The Bright Stream at The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. From its 2003 première, his Bright Stream became an instant hit with audiences both at home and abroad – and it’s easy to see why.

Jaime Robles reviews a "rare and special" performance by the legendary Bolshoi Ballet perform at the Northern Lights Festival, Norway.

With a rocket-fuelled, high-octane production of The Flames of Paris, the Bolshoi Ballet has concluded its three-week season in London. And with the reappearance of the company’s former Wunderkinds, back as guest artists, to dance together in the ballet’s opening performance, how could it be anything but an exciting and exuberating final flourish to the tour.

There can be no lovelier and mystical moment in classical ballet than the sight of 32 ethereal ‘Shades’ in a ribbon of white, slowly descending from a darkened mountain range, down a zigzag ramp to the stage.

The Bolshoi are back in town and, judging from yesterday’s opening performance of Spartacus, they are here to show off their characteristically big and bold style of ballet. Spartacus is a spectacle of grand scale, a thrilling combination of physical power and drama.