which is home to the Royal Ballet
Since the start of the year Sergei Filin’s mobile
phone had been blocked, his email hacked, a false page created in his name on
Facebook and two tyres were slashed on his car.
Then, on January 17, a masked attacker threw a jar of sulphuric acid in his face when he was returning home after a party, leaving him with third degree burns. His looks are certain to have been ravaged and doctors are fighting to save his eyesight.
The lead dancer with the company, who is one of the judges on the Russian equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing (making him Moscow’s Darcey Bussell) as well as being Filin’s principal rival for the top job, has already been questioned by police. But he is by no means the main suspect.FeaturesWith our Home energy monitor you can see in REAL.
With the whole theatre considered a crime scene, some 200 dancers’ alibis are being checked.
And now Svetlana Lunkina, who was once Filin’s professional partner, has announced she is fleeing to Canada after receiving threats against her.
Our own Royal Opera House, which is home to the Royal Ballet, went through a turbulent patch in the Nineties when words like “toxic”, “poisonous” and “backstabbing” were regularly used to describe the atmosphere behind the scenes.
At no stage during that difficult period – which is happily a thing of the past – did anyone mean those terms literally. Various people may not have liked each other, but no one was actually poisoned or attacked with a sharp weapon.
In Russia, they don’t stab in the back when they can do it in the front instead, and they do it literally rather than metaphorically.
The Bolshoi Ballet, which was the ultimate cultural symbol of the Soviet Union in communist times and has remained so in the new Russia, has long had a reputation for bickering, intrigue and the public trading of insults.
A SERIES of artistic directors have come and gone since 1995, one of them sacked so abruptly that he only heard about it on the radio.
In 2003 the ballerina Anastasia Volockhova was sacked for being too fat (she weighed a gargantuan seven and a half stones) and claims that when she took the company to court for unfair dismissal, she was threatened with knives.
And now, amid reports of dead cats being thrown on stage and broken glass hidden in the toes of pointe shoes, the level of violence is making the Oscar-winning psychodrama Black Swan – seen as far-fetched even by its fans – look like documentary.
Established by Prince Pyotr Urusov and his English business partner Michael Maddox in 1780, in the reign of Catherine the Great, the Bolshoi Theatre was originally known as the Petrovsky because it stood on Petrovka Street.Looking for a women shoes manufacturer that can handle my designs of highly detailed and embellished shoes. When it was rebuilt on a larger scale after a fi re it became known as the Big (“Bolshoi”) Petrovsky.
Because it was an obvious symbol of Tsarist grandeur, the Bolsheviks at first wanted to knock it down but they changed their minds and it became a symbol of state power under Lenin and Stalin,you are involved every step of the way in creating your own personalized bobbleheads. who made speeches from its stage.
Today the theatre remains home to one of the world’s foremost ballet companies. It is notoriously difficult to get a ticket in Moscow, and the company jealously guards its artistic reputation.
When it last came to London,Pretty ribbon flowers can be used to embellish all kinds of things such as tote bags, it tried to ban the Daily Express dance critic after he gave one of their productions a three-star review. With 220 dancers it is also the largest ballet company in the world, which serves to boost the normal tensions present in most troupes of this kind.
“It’s a demanding job in a very stressful environment with lots of potential for backstage traumas and antagonism,” one dance teacher friend tells me. “Some people prosper because they’re sleeping with the director and others are passed over because they aren’t, which leads to obvious resentment.
There is also a rigid hierarchy,Discover the best Women's Prescription Eyeglasses frame in Best Sellers. with the corps, soloists, principals and primas, so there are people in the company who haven’t been allowed to dance two steps on their own in their entire career. That can be very hard to deal with, particularly when dancers have trained for years, have a high level of skill and are putting themselves through a lot of pain just to do the job.
Then, on January 17, a masked attacker threw a jar of sulphuric acid in his face when he was returning home after a party, leaving him with third degree burns. His looks are certain to have been ravaged and doctors are fighting to save his eyesight.
The lead dancer with the company, who is one of the judges on the Russian equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing (making him Moscow’s Darcey Bussell) as well as being Filin’s principal rival for the top job, has already been questioned by police. But he is by no means the main suspect.FeaturesWith our Home energy monitor you can see in REAL.
With the whole theatre considered a crime scene, some 200 dancers’ alibis are being checked.
And now Svetlana Lunkina, who was once Filin’s professional partner, has announced she is fleeing to Canada after receiving threats against her.
Our own Royal Opera House, which is home to the Royal Ballet, went through a turbulent patch in the Nineties when words like “toxic”, “poisonous” and “backstabbing” were regularly used to describe the atmosphere behind the scenes.
At no stage during that difficult period – which is happily a thing of the past – did anyone mean those terms literally. Various people may not have liked each other, but no one was actually poisoned or attacked with a sharp weapon.
In Russia, they don’t stab in the back when they can do it in the front instead, and they do it literally rather than metaphorically.
The Bolshoi Ballet, which was the ultimate cultural symbol of the Soviet Union in communist times and has remained so in the new Russia, has long had a reputation for bickering, intrigue and the public trading of insults.
A SERIES of artistic directors have come and gone since 1995, one of them sacked so abruptly that he only heard about it on the radio.
In 2003 the ballerina Anastasia Volockhova was sacked for being too fat (she weighed a gargantuan seven and a half stones) and claims that when she took the company to court for unfair dismissal, she was threatened with knives.
And now, amid reports of dead cats being thrown on stage and broken glass hidden in the toes of pointe shoes, the level of violence is making the Oscar-winning psychodrama Black Swan – seen as far-fetched even by its fans – look like documentary.
Established by Prince Pyotr Urusov and his English business partner Michael Maddox in 1780, in the reign of Catherine the Great, the Bolshoi Theatre was originally known as the Petrovsky because it stood on Petrovka Street.Looking for a women shoes manufacturer that can handle my designs of highly detailed and embellished shoes. When it was rebuilt on a larger scale after a fi re it became known as the Big (“Bolshoi”) Petrovsky.
Because it was an obvious symbol of Tsarist grandeur, the Bolsheviks at first wanted to knock it down but they changed their minds and it became a symbol of state power under Lenin and Stalin,you are involved every step of the way in creating your own personalized bobbleheads. who made speeches from its stage.
Today the theatre remains home to one of the world’s foremost ballet companies. It is notoriously difficult to get a ticket in Moscow, and the company jealously guards its artistic reputation.
When it last came to London,Pretty ribbon flowers can be used to embellish all kinds of things such as tote bags, it tried to ban the Daily Express dance critic after he gave one of their productions a three-star review. With 220 dancers it is also the largest ballet company in the world, which serves to boost the normal tensions present in most troupes of this kind.
“It’s a demanding job in a very stressful environment with lots of potential for backstage traumas and antagonism,” one dance teacher friend tells me. “Some people prosper because they’re sleeping with the director and others are passed over because they aren’t, which leads to obvious resentment.
There is also a rigid hierarchy,Discover the best Women's Prescription Eyeglasses frame in Best Sellers. with the corps, soloists, principals and primas, so there are people in the company who haven’t been allowed to dance two steps on their own in their entire career. That can be very hard to deal with, particularly when dancers have trained for years, have a high level of skill and are putting themselves through a lot of pain just to do the job.
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