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 ballerinas husband decide to swap roles for the evening Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovichs score at the Bolshoi creating a laughoutloud 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 Ratmanskys brilliantly choreographed smash Captured live on Apr 29 2012