Bolshoi Ballet

The Bolshoi Ballet is a Russian ballet company, which has been based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. With more than 200 dancers, it forms the largest ballet company in the world.

The Tsarist

The Bolshoi Ballet grew out of a 1773 dance school founded by a Moscow orphanage. The year 1776 is considered the founding year of the company. It provided dancers for the Petrovsky Theatre was founded in 1780 and after its fire in 1805 on a transitional basis for the Arbat Theatre.

On January 19, 1825 new Bolshoi Theatre opened its doors. The Bolshoi Ballet was always in competition with the Kirov Ballet of St. Petersburg and put more than this, the national Russian ballet tradition. In 1850 the company already 155 dancers. Not least because of the standardized choreography of the Bolshoi Ballet was the premiere of the later world-famous ballet Swan Lake in 1877, a little happy. In 1900, reformed Alexander Gorski ballet style, which later earned him a reputation as a champion of revolution.

Soviet ballet

After the October Revolution of 1917 structured Gorski, supported by the People's Commissar for Education Lunacharsky, the ballet company has to offer. From the previous three years of ballet study was a first - seven, in 1934 a ten year old. Virtuosity and dramatic expressiveness could be increased considerably, so that the Bolshoi Ballet acquired an excellent reputation already in the 1920s.

After Gorski initiated from 1924 Rostislav Sakharov and Leonid Lavrovski the ballet. 1954 graduated in London his first guest appearance in the West, 1958, the first game in the Federal Republic of Germany. Numerous ballets have been premiered by the Bolshoi ballet.

Under the direction of Yuri Grigorovich in 1964 won the troupe, including internationally, more important. Here danced under other Galina Ulanova Sergejewna, Alexander Godunov, Nina Ananiashvili and Maya Mikhailovna Plisezkaja. The most spectacular success in 1968 was the world premiere of the ballet Spartacus. After that Grigorovich turned more to the classical ballet with new emphasis on dance elements. In Kremlin Palace regular appearances took place.

Post-Soviet time

In 1995, Grigorovich from the management of the Bolshoi ballet. His successor was the dancer Vladimir Vassilev. In 1998, Alexei Fadejetschew the artistic director, Boris Akimov 2000 and 2004, Alexei Ratmansky. The new production of Drambalet The flames of Paris, a revolutionary Ballets in 1932 by Vasily Wainonen 2011 was a great success. In May 2011, the Ballet has performed in Paris with this performance in the Palais Garnier opera. 2011, the stage was reopened after complete refurbishment of six years. That same year, Sergei Filin was appointed artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, the wurde.Die injured on January 17, 2013 by an unknown masked men before his Moscow apartment by an acid attack hard on the head, neck and eye former prima ballerina Galina Stepanenko, Filins Ex woman conducts a substitute, the troupe. Filin itself is in the Aachen Klinikum behandelt.Anfang March 2013 the Moscow police are known to have arrested the perpetrators. The alleged man behind the attack was the Bolshoi principal dancer Pawel Dmitritschenko and the 35 -year-old Yuri Saruzki the attacker.