Pointe Shoes

I'm so happy I could run down the streets singing with joy. The Mariinsky lost an amazing ballerina. Congratulations to the Bolshoi for acquiring such a lovely dancer and to Evgenia for her long overdue promotion.

I saw that listed on Obraztsova's website (before it got shut down.)

It's nice to see ballet used to help support others in need. I wish I could be present, sadly, I can't afford to hop on a plane to Paris next week.

Hopefully some BT members will be able to go and fill the rest of us in. Looks like an interesting mix of performances and performers.

Congratulations to Maria Shirinkina.

With regards to Fateyev and tall ballerinas, I actually didn't know that. While it's a shame that Lopatkina is being "mistreated", I'm glad that shorter dancers are finally being given bigger roles. Perhaps we'll finally be seeing some long overdue promotions. (-cough- Obraztsova and Martynyuk -cough-)

I hate it that politics seems to be so prevalent with regards to promotions recently. (Edit)