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I think the main way to know which ballet company you're getting is: if Irina Kolsenikova (or Mrs. Tatchkin) isn't splashed all over the posters and promotional material, it's not the Tatchkin troupe. :thumbsup:

An interesting point of view Canbelto, but as Konstantin Tachkin's St Petersburg Ballet Theatre has been in theUK on tour with posters of different principals of the company (depending on ballet titles being performed) this is not the answer !

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...St Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre ...why are they using the name Konstantin Tachkin's St Petersburg Ballet Theatre as reported much of the US Press

"Tatchkin's" is not in the name of the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater, wild.

Love your idea, Mel. :thumbsup: Personally, I think that the Tatchkin troupe should be, well, "Tatchkin Ballet" or "Ballet Tatchkin"!

I'll be seeing the 'non-Tatchkin troupe' performing GISELLE in Rockville, Maryland, on March 12. As I've seen the very fine DVD of the Tatchkin troupe in this ballet, I should be able to make a good comparison of the two companies and their respective productions of the classic, step-by-step (so to speak). Will do so in this forum after I see the "non-Tatchkin" GISELLE.

You are absolutely right - Tachkin's is not name of St Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre - but the press are saying something different ! see following (especially The Company and The Prima Ballerina !

Russian troupe to bring 'Giselle' to life

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.08.2008

The St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre brings its rendition of "Giselle" to Centennial Hall on Saturday. The two-act, two-scene work is considered a classic and is a must-see for fans of the art. The last time Tucson saw a professional "Giselle" performed was in 2004, when Ballet Tucson played out Act II alongside "Dracula" at its 2004-05 season opener. The UApresents show begins at 8 p.m., and tickets are $27-$67 through the Centennial Hall box office, 621-3341.

● The ballet: "Giselle" is right up there with "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake" as one of the most popular ballets in existence. Created by Théophile Gautier with help from writer Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Adolphe Adam, "Giselle" was conceived as an homage to ballerina Carlotta Grisi and premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1841. The production was such a success with critics and audiences that a style of hat and fabric were named in its honor.

● The company: The St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre brings a fresh perspective to the dance world. The privately funded touring company was founded in 1994 by Konstantin Tachkin and already has made repeated trips to points around the globe including Great Britain, Japan, South Africa and the United States. The troupe boasts more than 70 dancers, many of them fresh faces recruited straight from Russian dance academies.

● The prima ballerina: The Ballet Theatre is bringing principal dancer Irina Kolesnikova with them. A two-time reject from the Kirov (Mariinsky Theatre) and Musorgsky Theatre and a verbal punching bag for dance professor Elvira Kokorina during her time at the Vaganova Ballet Academy according to Dance Magazine, Kolesnikova has received much acclaim during her time with St. Petersburg. She won a silver medal at Perm's "Arabesque 2002" and a silver at Japan's International and Modern Dance competition in 2005. She also was nominated for best female dancer at London's National Dance Awards after a performance at Royal Albert Hall.

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[...... A two-time reject from the Kirov (Mariinsky Theatre) and Musorgsky Theatre and a verbal punching bag for dance professor Elvira Kokorina during her time at the Vaganova Ballet Academy ....

Well at least this is absolutely right. I wonder how many New Yorkers remember Kolesnikova during the January 1998 visit of the Vaganova Academy to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in a joint concert with the SAB? Kolesnikova was cast in the "Frescoes Pas de Quatre" from StLeon/Pugni's Little Humpbacked Horse. Nice quartet but hardly the stuff of "Prima Ballerina Assoluta." The female stars of that Vaganova tour included Irina Golub (lead graduate of '98, invited to Kirov-Mariinsky), Irina Perren (another top grad of '98, invited to join Maly-Moussorgsky as principal), Alesya Boyko (who went to the Bolshoi, not Kirov), Ekaterina Osmolkina (star of the class of '99) and Tatyana Tkachenko (star grad of '00). Among the star men of the Class of '98 were Anton Korsakov and Mikhail Ilyn (now w/ ABT). I even remember little V. Schklyarov -- now the rising classical male of the Mariinsky -- as the boy in the Nutcracker Pas de Trois, in that concert. I barely remember Kolesnikova & would have not remembered had I not gone back to my programme of that night. This puts things into proper perspective, IMO.

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Here is what Tatchkin's troupe is known as back home: Imperial Russian Ballet Theater

Look at the names of companies & venues on the following list -- 3rd company down in the 1st column, also identitied as "Tatchkin Ballet" at Fontanka Embankment no. 65:

http://www.rustrip.com/index.html?sid=[sid]〈=eng&page=all_stores

Actually the name Imperial Russian Ballet Theater is the name of the theatre not the name of the company The site is very popular with tourists who like to go to Mariinsky and other venues

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[...... A two-time reject from the Kirov (Mariinsky Theatre) and Musorgsky Theatre and a verbal punching bag for dance professor Elvira Kokorina during her time at the Vaganova Ballet Academy ....

Well at least this is absolutely right. I wonder how many New Yorkers remember Kolesnikova during the January 1998 visit of the Vaganova Academy to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in a joint concert with the SAB? Kolesnikova was cast in the "Frescoes Pas de Quatre" from StLeon/Pugni's Little Humpbacked Horse. Nice quartet but hardly the stuff of "Prima Ballerina Assoluta." The female stars of that Vaganova tour included Irina Golub (lead graduate of '98, invited to Kirov-Mariinsky), Irina Perren (another top grad of '98, invited to join Maly-Moussorgsky as principal), Alesya Boyko (who went to the Bolshoi, not Kirov), Ekaterina Osmolkina (star of the class of '99) and Tatyana Tkachenko (star grad of '00). Among the star men of the Class of '98 were Anton Korsakov and Mikhail Ilyn (now w/ ABT). I even remember little V. Schklyarov -- now the rising classical male of the Mariinsky -- as the boy in the Nutcracker Pas de Trois, in that concert. I barely remember Kolesnikova & would have not remembered had I not gone back to my programme of that night. This puts things into proper perspective, IMO.

Natalia thank you for sharing with us this bit of history. It’s a fine example of young pupils of the Vaganova Academy and their development. The Academy obviously sent their ’98 star pupils who had great potential. Although on Mariinsky site I do not see these dancers as stars…not even principals.

But this iprogramme s excellent archive material for the reputation of the school, and a great example for students who want to study classical ballet and become a great ballerina like Kolesnikova. Congratulations on owning such a programme - perhaps Irina Kolesnikova will sign it for you if you see her in dance in USA!

If you go to Irina’s website you can see the words of eminent press critics and their opinion of Irina and her career – here are two examples

“The ballad of Reading’s Odetta”

“…Kolesnikova is truly something else. An amazing line, arms that sing and irreproachable musicality. However awkward the tempi played by the conductor, she was always at one with the orchestra. What is more, she not only danced but truly lived the part. She filled every movement with an exact and clear meaning, revealing the true characters of the black and white swans. This is an example of ballerina as actress, with excellent technique into the bargain. She did not only choose not to simplify the part, which is rightly considered to be one of the most difficult in a ballerina’s repertoire, but indeed to complicate it; she performed Odile’s variations with double spins and in attitude. And all with a marvellously expressive face and a fine stage charm…

Kolesnikova graduated from the Academy of Russian Ballet in 1998 having studied with Professor E V Kokorina. According to the Professor, Irina was the best in her class in terms of intuition, ability and diligence, but the ballet authorities of the Mariinsky Theatre never had a really good look at her and so, no matter how hard the Professor put her case forward, she was never invited to the Mariinsky. Now it is especially pleasant for her to see Irina’s talents being put to good use…”

Aleksei Gosudarev – St Petersburg Chas Pik - February 2001, Russia

What a treat, then, to discover St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, a bona fide group now 10 years old which sources its talent from the Vaganova Academy (the same stable as the Kirov) and boasts at least one principal dancer of world calibre.

Why the wonderful Irina Kolesnikova wasn't snapped up by Russia's premier company straight from school is a mystery...

Kolesnikova has supermodel looks, a glittering technique and all the big classical roles in her lap…

Swan Lake shows off her qualities best: her Odile is no fragile, shrinking thing but a sleek, strong creature, exulting in her own length and flex of limb as much as she is trapped in misery. Among the scores of interpretations I've seen, only one, the Kirov's Uliana Lopatkina, another tall ballerina, has taken the White Swan's Act II adagio at so daringly slow a speed.

Kolesnikova's supreme technical control makes this possible, while her Garbo-like smoulder creates a transfixing allure, both regal and unbearably tender…

Jenny Gilbert – Independent – 19 December 2004 – London, UK

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I went last night to the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater (SPSABT) performance of GISELLE in Rockville, MD. It was a beautiful show, led by two fabulous soloists who I'd love to see again soon: petite redhead Anna Borodulina and tall-lanky-blonde Yuri Mirov (formerly from the Tatchkin troupe with other name - Yuri Gloukhikh).

Alas, I can't tell you the name of the Myrta...'cause she was not announced. (!!!!) Perhaps it's all for the better, as she was very wooden and 'heavy-mannered' (LOUD shoes!) in her delivery. The other negative note was sounded by the Peasant PDD pair (again, nameless), partly due to their being mismatched in height and weight...a swan lift imploded, among other troubles.

Back to the positives. The corps was impressively spot-on, especially those Wilis in Act II. Designs and staging were traditionally lovely. Packed audience shouted 'bravo!' and gave a standing-o, esp for the leading ballerina and for company A.D. Yuri Petukhov, when he took a bow at the end. All in all, I'd rate them above the Tatchkin troupe.

Will try to post a a more detailed review later in the Recent Performances space.

Also, I learned that the SPSABT has just been renamed "Yakobsen Ballet" back home in Russia. Fianlly, I was happy to see that two of my favorite St.P dancers from the '90s are coaches with this troupe:

* Elena Sherstnyeva - for years the top female chatecter artist of the Kirov-Mariinsky, excelling in national dances

* Irina Kirsanova - THE classical 'prima' of the Maly-Moussorgsky Theater Ballet (now Ruzimatov's troupe, with nae "Mikhailovsky")...and the greatest Esmeralda of the second half of the 20th C. A truly great dancer. No wonder the level of dancing of last night's GISELLE was so high!

p.s. - we mentioned Anton Korsakov above. I found out that Korsakov was a classmate and 'best pal' of last night's Albrecht, Yuri Mirov, both having graduated in the Vaganova Academy's 1998...the gang that went to Brooklyn that memorable February long ago.

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This sounds interesting - i have not seen them but with all this chat about them using lots of different names, i must say I was not

inspired to see them if they came my way!!

I wonder why, if the Yacobsen company are so good, they only play arts centres and colleges ? Iknow the Tachkin company plays major cities and venues, with an orchestra so I guess they are in a higher league.

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I wonder why, if the Yacobsen company are so good, they only play arts centres and colleges ? Iknow the Tachkin company plays major cities and venues, with an orchestra so I guess they are in a higher league.

Don't forget that it is often publicity and spending power that makes all the difference in where a company is able to perform.

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There's a review in the Washington Post about the company's performance of Giselle at Montgomery College:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8031403866.html

Credit for heightening the emotional register (and for transcending the tinny-sounding music) goes largely to Anna Borodulina, who danced the title role. In Act 1, Borodulina's Giselle was such a girlish, impulsive, bashful little thing, you'd have sworn she'd just returned from the orthodontist's office.
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Where the companies perform MAY also have something to do with how they see their missions. Robert Joffrey started his company by playing colleges and arts centers off the beaten path to bring ballet where it had seldom or never been seen before. If that's the Yakobsen goal, more power to them. If the Tatchkin company wants to play major cities, more power to them, too.

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Review by Robert Johnson in the NJ Starledger didn't much care for the company's "Carmen"
Spare yourself.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/ind....xml&coll=1

Oh well. Maybe he would have liked the Giselle better. I now have tickets & will post a review.

Amy - thanks for the heads up ........but I hope you did not miss the point Mr Johnson made - the Yakobsen company have yet another alias "Younger Brother to the Kirov" How embarrassingly cringe-makingly worse can this get ! I admire loyalty but I think it is hard to support a company which gets such a review from a respected critic (not a website wannabe) Mr Johnson says "It's hard to know who should be more ashamed -- the impresario, Columbia Artists Management or local presenters -- for trying to swindle audiences by linking this garbage to the finest in Russian ballet."

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I admire loyalty but I think it is hard to support a company which gets such a review from a respected critic (not a website wannabe) Mr Johnson says "It's hard to know who should be more ashamed -- the impresario, Columbia Artists Management or local presenters -- for trying to swindle audiences by linking this garbage to the finest in Russian ballet."

I haven't seen their Carmen. If it is the one-act version created for Pliesetskaya, I can imagine that it wasn't well received. It generally seems to get very unfavourable reviews in the west, no matter what company performs it. However that may be, with the last part of Mr Johnsonson's statement I can't agree. The St Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre is part of the "finest in Russian ballet" as far as I'm concerned. Certainly they are in no way inferior to the travelling troops that the Bolshoi sends around (I'm not talking about the full-season, all-star casting that places like London get). I'd love to ask Mr Johnson in what way they failed to meet this standard.

BTW, I don't know if I just couldn't access the rest of Mr Johnson's review, but his arguments seem to be entirely unsubstantiated. He describes the production as "teeth-grindingly awful". In what way? Choreography? Decor? Dancing? Casting? Unless there is more to this, I'm not taking what he says on faith.

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Don't judge the company on its new choreography -- such as the weird 'R&J' with Queen Mab and now this. This is not the Alonso Carmen which is a very fine work.

This fabulous troupe should stick to its strengths: the classics and the Yakobsen miniatures.

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Poor Robert Johnson... he missed Giselle.

"Treat Yourself" would be my comment. Some of the dancing in this production was absolutely impeccable.

So nice to see the ballet done with the proper pointe technique. The Giselle's ability to linger in and then float out of her balances was sublime.

I'm a bit fried. Will post more details after I've deciphered my blindly scrawled notes tomorrow. Okay, there were some slight flaws, but the strengths made you readily forgive them.

This was so much better than I was expecting. I'd rate them way above the Boston Ballet cast I saw do a Sylphide matinee last fall... I haven't seen San Francisco Ballet live lately, and I don't know how they are at Giselle, but I'd venture that the women in this production from the ballerina down to the corps would be dangerous competition.

(and I remember not recommending this company's Romeo & Juliet).

[Edited to add... I have posted my review on the thread with the other reviews: http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/index.p...c=26808&hl= ]

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I admire loyalty but I think it is hard to support a company which gets such a review from a respected critic (not a website wannabe) Mr Johnson says "It's hard to know who should be more ashamed -- the impresario, Columbia Artists Management or local presenters -- for trying to swindle audiences by linking this garbage to the finest in Russian ballet."

I haven't seen their Carmen. If it is the one-act version created for Pliesetskaya, I can imagine that it wasn't well received. It generally seems to get very unfavourable reviews in the west, no matter what company performs it. However that may be, with the last part of Mr Johnsonson's statement I can't agree. The St Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre is part of the "finest in Russian ballet" as far as I'm concerned. Certainly they are in no way inferior to the travelling troops that the Bolshoi sends around (I'm not talking about the full-season, all-star casting that places like London get). I'd love to ask Mr Johnson in what way they failed to meet this standard.

BTW, I don't know if I just couldn't access the rest of Mr Johnson's review, but his arguments seem to be entirely unsubstantiated. He describes the production as "teeth-grindingly awful". In what way? Choreography? Decor? Dancing? Casting? Unless there is more to this, I'm not taking what he says on faith.

Mr Johnsons remarks about the impesario may have struck the right note ...look at this from 1996 Are the Stars of the Bolshoi The Stars?

By JENNIFER DUNNING

Published: May 1, 1996

The dance troupe that will perform at the Tilles Center at Long Island University and at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in Bedford Park, the Bronx, this weekend calls itself Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet.

But is this the Bolshoi Ballet? The question has dogged the group since it began its 11-week tour of the United States on Feb. 19. Bolshoi Theater officials in Russia contend that there ape no Bolshoi dancers in the touring company and that the use of the Bolshoi name is a violation of international law. They have filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court of the Central District in Los Angelesagainst the tour's producer, Columbia Artists Management, one of the world's major classical-music booking agencies. The controversy has led dance-program presenters in Cincinnati and Denver to offer audiences a money-back guarantee if they are not satisfied with the performances. A third presenter, the Kentucky Center for the Arts, sued CAMI for misrepresentation.

Andrew S. Grossman, the senior vice president of CAMI who is responsible for the tour, says the dancers are bona fide members of the Bolshoi, one of Russia's oldest, best-known and most important ballet companies. In a Jan. 31 letter to the Kentucky Center for the Arts, where the troupe appeared in mid-April, Mr. Grossman dismissed the accusations as "in-house bickering and partisan politics created by individuals within the Bolshoi Theater." Mr. Grossman did not return phone calls this week.

Contract negotiations between the Bolshoi Theater and CAMI broke off in mid-November, said John Webber, the theater's American lawyer, who added that CAMI had no contract with the Bolshoi. The Bolshoi Theater is suing CAMI for damages and permanent injunctive relief on the grounds of unfair competition and infringement and dilution of the Bolshoi trademark. The name was registered as a trademark in the United States in April 1995. Last month, the Bolshoi lost its bid for a temporary restraining order on the grounds that too much of the tour, which ends on May 11, had elapsed.

Vladimir Vasilyev, the director of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and one of the great stars of the theater's ballet company in the 1960's and 70's, says there are no Bolshoi dancers -- not to mention stars -- in the troupe. Mr. Vasilyev had said he feared that the touring ensemble's standards would diminish the luster of the Bolshoi Ballet proper. An American tour is under discussion for 1998, the company's first in eight years.

"The tour presently being advertised using the name of the Bolshoi Theater is completely unauthorized, and is in serious violation of laws governing the use of the name of the Bolshoi Theater," Mr. Vasilyev wrote on Jan. 8 in a letter to The New York Times. On Jan. 25, Mr. Vasilyev notified CAMI, in a letter to Mr. Grossman, that the Bolshoi Theater was breaking off its business relationship with the agency and canceling a planned 1997 tour of the United States by the Bolshoi Symphony.

Eleven of the principal dancers in the touring group trained at the Bolshoi and danced with the company when it was under the direction of Yuri Grigorovich, who was ousted in 1995, though program biographies obtained from several tour engagements do not mention that the dancers have retired from the Bolshoi or have left it. Two principals were formerly with the Kirov Ballet, Russia's other major troupe, and Valery Golovitser, Mr. Vasilyev's representative in New York, said the ensemble's corps de ballet was from a troupe in Ufa.

The dispute occurs against a backdrop of political and economic turmoil that has flared in Russia after the collapse of Communism, as foreign and national entrepreneurs seek to cash in on Russian assets like the Bolshoi name. The arts traditions of the past are now being questioned, too. In an interview in January, Mr. Vasilyev talked of a needed modernizing of the repertory of the Bolshoi, which was founded more than two centuries ago.

No matter whether the tour performers, several of whom have been cr'tically praised during the tour, are bona fide Bolshoi dancers, CAMI seems to have had trouble deciding on a name and director for the ensemble. The group has been billed variously as Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet Ensemble and Principal Dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet. In certain advertising and program material, the company is listed as being under the direction of Vyacheslav Gordeyev, who replaced Mr. Grigorovich as director of the Bolshoi Ballet and who has disavowed the group. In addition, Mr. Grigorovich is described in some material as "chief choreographer" of the Bolshoi, though he and the company have severed all ties.

Ticket sales have been brisk and both performances at Tilles Center are sold out. But the Kentucky Center charged CAMI with misrepresentation of the group in a lawsuit settled out of court. In papers filed in August, the center said CAMI had misrepresented the touring company by falsely claiming in the contract that the troupe would be headed by the former leading Bolshoi dancers Natalya Bessmertnova and Yuri Vladimirov, who were no longer with the Bolshoi.

The Aronoff Center in Cincinnati offered a money-back guarantee to its audience, though there were only a handful of takers, a spokesman for the center said. And Barry Fey, a Denver producer, is also offering a guarantee. Mr. Fey had considered canceling the performance late last week, but decided to go ahead after the restraining order was denied, he said. "The quality of dance is there," Mr. Fey said. "Once the court ruled, I felt professionally and morally we could go ahead. If you can't use the Bolshoi name, forget it. You might as well fold up the tent."

A spokeswoman for the Tilles Center said the center received material identifying the group as Stars of the Bolshoi as late as March. In its publicity material, the center refers to Mr. Grigorovich as chief choreographer of the Bolshoi. A publicity release for Lehman Center describes the touring ensemble as Stars of the Bolshoi but identifies Mr. Grigorovich as the former director of the company and the dancers as former members of the Bolshoi and Kirov.

American audiences have long been seeing small touring groups from large American and international ballet companies, many of them produced by CAMI, led by dancers who are not always the company stars they are billed to be, in repertory and with production levels that do not represent the best of those companies.

Will the Stars of the Bolshoi tarnish the reputation of the Bolshoi Theater? The furor over the touring ensemble has generated an unusual amount of press coverage around the nation.

An editorial in The Washington Post in late February compared the group to knockoff Louis Vuitton bags and Chanel perfume, saying, "No one wants to arrive at the theater for an evening of ballet and spend the performance wondering whether political and economic troubles have replaced the incomparable stars of legend with a bunch of ringers."

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Don't judge the company on its new choreography -- such as the weird 'R&J' with Queen Mab and now this. This is not the Alonso Carmen which is a very fine work.

This fabulous troupe should stick to its strengths: the classics and the Yakobsen miniatures.

I expect you are all aware of the esteemed Nina Alovert She has written the most informativearticle entitled THE LEONID YAKOBSON THEATRE RENAMED AS THE KONSTANTIN TACHKIN THEATRE

Nina Alovert – Russian Bazar №12 – 20th March 2008

Her opinion in the piece contains the following !

Such chaos reigns on stage that I may have missed a few of the ballet’s details. In the programme, next to each cast member there are two names but there is no mention of who is actually dancing. This is a pity because although the troupe as a whole creates the impression of an amateur company, the artist who danced Jose (V. Dorokin/I. Zaitsev) was very good. To be fair to the choreographer here, the Don Jose role is the most interesting the ballet offers: in act two Petukhov creates a witty and dramatic monologue for his hero. The audience perked up straight away and gave the dancer V. Dorokin/I. Zaitsev a heart felt round of applause. I would also single out the choreographic characterisation of Escamillo (at the beginning of act two) and the performer of that role: S. Davydov/P. Yakovlev.

I was ashamed for the great Leonid Yakobson’s former company. I am not even talking about the fact that at the present moment its dancers are at a much lower professional level than those of the Tachkin theatre whose name they have either appropriated for themselves or has been appropriated for them. This brazen use of someone else’s name suggests unscrupulousness and a lack of respect towards one’s own company. However, the most important thing here is that one should not be touring bad taste cowboy work thinking that the audience does not in any case understand. It does understand. Even the most casual theatre goer should be presented with theatre of the highest artistic quality. What is more, Russian ballet should not be discredited abroad.

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This brazen use of someone else’s name suggests unscrupulousness and a lack of respect towards one’s own company.

As far as I know, the 'Yakobson' company has never used the name "Constantin Tatchkin Theatre", but either St Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre or (as a contraction) St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, which, as previous posters have pointed out, was their name before the Tatchkin Company even existed. So I don't know about 'using someone else's name'.

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This brazen use of someone else’s name suggests unscrupulousness and a lack of respect towards one’s own company.

As far as I know, the 'Yakobson' company has never used the name "Constantin Tatchkin Theatre", but either St Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre or (as a contraction) St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, which, as previous posters have pointed out, was their name before the Tatchkin Company even existed. So I don't know about 'using someone else's name'.

Nina Aloverts piece tells us that the company is using the Tachkin name ....as so many newspapers in the US have also reported

THE LEONID YAKOBSON THEATRE RENAMED

AS THE KONSTANTIN TACHKIN THEATRE

Nina Alovert – Russian Bazar №12 – 20th March 2008

Not so long ago I was sent some newspaper articles from the Arizona Daily Star one of which, dated 2nd February, advertised the visit of The Konstantin Tachkin Saint Petersburg Ballet Theatre who were to perform the ballet Giselle and other classical ballets. The author of the article informed the future ballet going audience that the renowned Prima Ballerina, Irina Kolesnikova, would be appearing and listed a few facts from her biography taken from an article which I had written for Dance Magazine in 2006.

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