Nikolai Tsiskaridze

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    Vaganova Ballet Academy student Karina Soldatova loses her battle with leukaemia

    ByGramilano

    Yesterday, Karina Soldatova, the Vaganova Ballet Academy student who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2016, died after a courageous battle against the disease. During the autumn of 2016 she returned to study at the Academy but earlier this year there was a recurrence, which we reported on here, in May of this year. After various appeals to help…

  • Bolshoi Ballet’s Vladislav Lantratov on the cancelling of Nureyev: There is nothing worse for an artist…

    ByGramilano

    On 8 July, after the dress rehearsal of the Bolshoi Ballet’s ambitious new ballet on the life of Rudolf Nureyev, the premiere was cancelled. Vladislav Lantratov was to have played Nureyev and, stunned by the announcement, wrote on Instagram, Нет слов…… понимание что ты только полюбил роль, начал вживаться в спектакль, всё начало складываться… и…

  • Children banned from the Bolshoi Ballet

    ByGramilano

    A week ago, a group of parents with their young children – 5-11 years-old – were refused entrance to a performance of Swan Lake, and without a refund being offered. The Bolshoi‘s General Director, Vladimir Urin, said that varying age restrictions were allotted to the company’s ballets after the theatre had received multiple complaints from…

  • Nominees of Benois de la Danse 2015

    ByGramilano

    CHOREOGRAPHERS: ALEXANDER EKMAN – A Swan Lake, Mikael Karlsson. The Norwegian National Ballet. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MAILLOT – The Taming of the Shrew, Dmitry Shostakovich. Bolshoi Ballet. DWIGHT RHODEN – Verse Us, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nils Frahm, Claude Debussy, Philip Glass, Sven Helbig, Kristian Jarvi. Ballet Nice Mediterrannee. MARTIN SCHLÄPFER – Deep Field, Adriana Holzsky. Ballet am…

  • Russian Ministry says Vaganova letter against Tsiskaridze is forged

    ByGramilano

    The Russian Ministry of Culture has said that the letter sent to Vladimir Putin by the staff of the Vaganova Academy, asking for the removal of Nikolai Tsiskaridze as its director, is a forgery. The letter said that the announced removal of the director Vera Dorofeyeva, and the artistic director, Altynai Asylmuratova, would cause “irreparable…

  • New Russian ballet advisory board created to avoid further scandal?

    ByGramilano

    The Russian Culture Ministry has announced that a new advisory board will be formed to ‘publicly and openly’ give advice on the running of the country’s top dance academies. It is a move which it insists is not related to the recent Vaganova scandal. The new Russian Coordination Council for Choreography and Education may include the…

  • Ex-Bolshoi star Tsiskaridze returns to dance in The Nutcracker on New Year’s Eve

    ByGramilano

    Former Bolshoi dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze, whose contract was terminated by the theatre at the beginning of the summer, will return for The Nutcracker, as it would give him “the chance to say goodbye to the audience”. A source close to the theatre’s administration told RIA Novosti that Tsiskaridze had asked for the top job at the Vaganova Academy, but Culture Minister…

  • Nederlands Dans Theatre director says the Bolshoi must come together

    ByGramilano

    The Nederlands Dans Theatre perform at the Mariinsky‘s new theatre, Mariinsky II, tonight. Artistic director Paul Lightfoot talked to Izvestia on his thoughts about the recent Bolshoi scandals. I know Sergei Filin. What happened to him was a terrible tragedy. I hate cruelty and do not understand this act. Ballet is such a beautiful, illuminating artform, a universal language;…

  • Nikolai Tsiskaridze falls silent, afraid of dismissal from the Bolshoi

    ByGramilano

    Bolshoi Theatre‘s Nikolai Tsiskaridze, fearing dismissal from the company, refuses to communicate with the press without permission from the Bolshoi‘s spokesman Katerina Novikova. Tsiskaridze was asked to comment on the fact that the Bolshoi Theatre will not renew the contract with the acting head of the trade union Ruslan Pronin, but Tsiskaridze refused: If Novikova, our…

  • Mud will be slung tonight: Tsiskaridze and Volochkova expose prostitution at the Bolshoi

    ByGramilano

    Ex-Bolshoi dancer Anastasia Volochkova and current Bolshoi star and stirrer Nikolai Tsiskaridze have been on Russian television to add even more mud to an already murky pond. The Bolshoi’s general manager, Anatoly Iksanov, has said that Volochkova’s claims that the company pimped out its ballerinas to rich patrons was “nonsense and dirt”. According to Bloomberg, Volochkova, who was fired in 2003 for…

  • Acid attacker’s partner was ex-girlfriend of Bolshoi director Sergei Filin?

    ByGramilano

    Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has admitted organising the attack on director Sergei Filin in January, has said that one of his principal motives was that his partner Anzhelina Vorontsova was being passed over for the top roles. According to an inside source at the Bolshoi, we’ve heard that Vorontsova had been romantically involved with Felin in the past. The Times said,…

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