Amy Reusch

And now he is moving to Berlin? I cannot find an article in English, but these seem to say he is taking over from Malakhov? http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/02/06/cultura/1360148721.html http://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20130207/54366459982/nacho-duato-staatsballet.html

IMHO has a special place, but thanks for filling me in..

Have we started using abbreviations?

What does "ITA" mean?

If her love was Balanchine's choreography, would she have been any happier elsewhere, even if she danced more? It seems the muse called her back and we all benefitted. The work she is doing with the interpreter's archive is priceless. Would that all great choreographers' work received similar care.

I'm not clear on why the McGregor premiere has been postponed... It seems slightly more likely to do with the Svetlana Lunkina fleeing to Canada to avoid threats? Are there threats in multiple directions? Was Lunkina's filmmaker husband involved in the Rite broadcast? It is all rather confusing. Is he not a filmmaker but rather a producer?

What would be bad would be if Tsiskardze took the fall for someone else, the real culprit, just because it was so easy to go after Tsiskardze. There could be pressure to come up with a suspect. I still wonder why first we heard Filin was going to Brussels for treatment, but then he didn't go.. I hope the decision regarding his care really does have to do with avoiding travelling and not with a political necessity to affirm that the best doctors are in Russia.

I suppose Tsiskardze is a good one to look closely at if only because he likely is more aware of others who share his antagonistic sentiments than even Filin is. How often will someone express in private shared negative feelings that they keep quiet about otherwise? I imagine Tsiskardze knows a wider list of suspects than anyone else.

Would it help getting Balanchine rep? They haven't had any trouble in the past have they??

Well, his surname finally makes sense...

Is embryonc another name for stem cell work?

Perhaps they will do a joint farewell?

I am confused, did he never go to Brussels? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/981145/Bolshoiartistic-irectortounderg-secondeyeoperation.html "It was suggested earlier that Mr Filin might be sent to Belgium for treatment but it now appears he will undergo surgery in Moscow. Doctors said reports that he could lose his vision entirely were unfounded. They hope his eyesight can be fully restored."

I can't quite fathom, the attack,surely must be about something more than "ticket scalping", but... the black market and the Bolshoi have been mentioned in the same breath before... A few months ago at the Bolshoi: "The only way to find a seat is to find a ticket through a specialist agency or black market touts which could cost up to 25,000 rubles ($800), according to the Russian media.". [re-opening gala] http://dawn.com/2011/11/03/first-production-sparks-scandal-at-restored-bolshoi/ and... "Despite assurances from the theater administration that seats to the first night show were available by invitation only, some online brokers still offered tickets to Friday’s performance, with prices ranging from 1 million rubles ($33,600) to 2.5 million rubles ($84,100)" http://en.rian.ru/art_living/20111030/168258137.html And... "Right after the Bolshoi Theater's main stage reopened following an expensive restoration, ticket scalpers began storming its gates. A popular LiveJournal post by an anonymous user calling herself angryrussia detailed how it was nearly impossible for an ordinary person to score tickets to, say, the “Ruslan and Lyudmila” opera – buying online was not an option, and lines to the box office were dominated by well-organized groups of “enterprising businessmen” who made profits off illegally reselling Bolshoi tickets. According to the blogger, the scalpers were able to cut off access to the box office for hours – and the theater administration apparently did nothing to stop them. Angryrussia asked the obvious question: “Why are these guys in hoods creating a ticket mafia 100 meters away from the State Duma – and nobody is doing anything about it?” She answers her own question when she muses: “Why do foreign theaters do everything so that I, a foreigner, can easily and comfortably visit them – and something like this is impossible in my own country? Or would something like this be seen as unprofitable by the theater administration – because the ticket mafia gives them a cut of its earnings? Oops, did I just say this out loud?”" http://themoscownews.com/chekhovs_gun/20111117/189211509.html Could this also be why the director of the Gogol Theater was beaten up?

RT reports that Filin's eyesight has been saved. I hope it is true:

Thank you for the translation.

This is beyond ghastly. What is it that TsiskarIdzebsays in the clip?

Todd Clark is an excellent lighting designer! (and I imagine the other designer good too).

Love the opening of the video!!!

Franklin! Franklin!

I'd love to see Allegra on Letterman...

Time for Allegra Kent or Patricia McBride? Tricia Brown?

Interesting costume sketches... Translation is a little fuzzy but it seems these were his own designs? http://artinvestment.ru/en/invest/painters/20121207_goleyzovsky.html

Another bio. http://persona.rin.ru/eng/view/f/0/35788/goleizovsky-kasian-yaroslavovych "Since the mid 1930's, when the official ideology proclaimed the formal quest 'formalism', Goleizovsky rarely able to work in Moscow (except athletic performances parades on Red Square). The interest in folklore led him to Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, where he raised a series of performances and participated in the preparation of decades of national art: his best work - Tajik ballet Du Ghoul "(music by A. Lenski, 1941). Ability to return to the Bolshoi Theater has arisen only in the 1960."

Another strange fragment : http://www.ebay.com/itm/1933-Moscow-Beauties-Russian-Goleizovsky-Ballet-Sexy-Legs-Muscles-Original-Photo-/350677138201?nma=true&si=qWHOOAQ8qLkzX4YPS2CqJBsZoG8%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557