Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina, and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening… Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a Sylph and its many colorful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash. Captured live on Apr 29, 2012.

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  Svetlana Lunkina

  Zina
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  Mikhail Lobukhin

  Pytor
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  Maria Alexandrova

  Ballerina
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  Ruslan Skvortsov

  Ballet Dancer
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  Denis Savin

  Accordionist
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  Alexei Loparevich

  Old Dacha Dweller
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  Anastasia Vinokur

  Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller
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  Egor Simachev

  Gavrilych
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  Ksenia Pchelkina

  Gayla
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  Anastasiya Meskova

  Milkmaid