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[drb]

Alexei Ratmansky announced yesterday additions to The Bolshoi Ballet:

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Aleksei Ratmansky named the artists who are joining the ballet in the new season.  Soloists: Andrei Merkuriev, Artem Shpilevsky, Ivan Vasiliev.  Corps-de-ballet: Ellena Bochkareva, Maria Vinogradova, Mariana Gomez, Victoria Zagrebayeva, Elena Zazakova, Victoria Litvinova, Mikhail Kryuchkov, Vladislav Lantratov, Aleksander Smolianinov, Ivan Filchev, Yegor Sharkov.

http://www.bolshoi.r...ex.php?id26=472

added 11:52 AM The announcement also mentions an American mixed bill featuring choreography of Balanchine, Tharp, and Wheeldon (Part).

[canbelto]

Whoa does this mean Merkuriev has left the MT and Shipelevsky the Berlin Ballet?

[Paul Parish]

Did they also list promotions?  (I'm just wondering how the marvellous Kobakhidze and Chrysanova are faring inside the company.)

[drb]

Paul Parish, on Aug 30 2006, 01:26 PM, said:

Did they also list promotions?....

The press release covered a lot of ground: the Company's great success in London, new hirings at the Opera and Ballet, opera and ballet programming for the new season, travel plans, the promise of new (unspecific) dvds, awards for service within the Company.  Promotions were not included.

[Azulynn]

Nonetheless, the company list on the Bolshoi's website has changed this summer - I've only noticed Ekaterina Krysanova and Natalia Osipova who are no longer in the corps, but have been promoted to soloist.

[Cygnet]

canbelto, on Aug 30 2006, 05:13 PM, said:

Whoa does this mean Merkuriev has left the MT and Shipelevsky the Berlin Ballet?

Hi Canbelto!  I don't know about Shipelevsky, but Merkuriev is in the Bolshoi now.

[drb]

Artem Shpilevsky is no longer listed on the Berlin Staatsballett site.

[Marc Haegeman]

Both are members of the Bolshoi now (as leading soloists, what is just below principal).

[ami1436]

Shpilevsky danced with them in London.  Don't know about Merkuriev as I made it to less than a handful of performances... (insert disappointed sigh here).

[Marc Haegeman]

Merkuriev only officially joined the Bolshoi in August. He wasn't in London.
Shpilevsky danced among others Espada, Rothbart and Symphony in C in London.

[chiapuris]

Azulynn, on Aug 30 2006, 07:12 PM, said:

- I've only noticed Ekaterina Krysanova and Natalia Osipova who are no longer in the corps, but have been promoted to soloist.

My heartfelt congratulations to both dancers, for their well-deserved promotions!

[drb]

Among dancers listed above:

Shpilevsky: His Bolshoi debut was as Espada in Don Q on July 22.  He is scheduled to play the Evil Genius in Swan Lake in September, Siegfried in November (opposite Shipulina), and The Baron in Gaite Parisienne in October.  

Merkuriev: He will play Yan in all September performances of The Bolt, and in October will be Jose to Alexandrova's Carmen, and will play The Miller in Le Tricorne.

Krysanova: Lyuska in Grigorovich's Golden Age in September.

[bingham]

Artem Shpilevsky danced at the YGP gala with J Kent and V Part earlier this year.The NYT reviewer was not too impressed.
Joe

[canbelto]

Wow it seems like the Bolshoi is the place to be for dancers. They've scooped up quite a few treasures the past few years.

[richard53dog]

bingham, on Aug 31 2006, 06:31 PM, said:

Artem Shpilevsky danced at the YGP gala with J Kent and V Part earlier this year.The NYT reviewer was not too impressed.
Joe

No, I wasn't too impressed either. Shpilevsky was shown to disadvantage by one of the young contestants
who also did Albrecht's variation. I was much more impressed by the more youthful Albrecht. And Shpilevsky's partnering of Kent seemed weak to me.