
“A comic ballet in two acts”
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.
Release Date: 4/29/2012
Runtime: 121 minutes
Director: Vincent Bataillon
00Companies: Bolshoi Theatre
Ballerina

Svetlana Lunkina
Zina

Mikhail Lobukhin
Pytor

Maria Alexandrova
Ballerina

Ruslan Skvortsov
Ballet Dancer

Denis Savin
Accordionist

Alexei Loparevich
Old Dacha Dweller

Anastasia Vinokur
Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller

Egor Simachev
Gavrilych

Ksenia Pchelkina
Gayla

Anastasiya Meskova
Milkmaid

Alexander Voytyuk
Tractor Driver

Alexander Vorobiyov
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