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Scenes from "Romeo & Juliet” at Bolshoi last week with Elizaveta Kokoreva & Daniil Potaptsev. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AivVmc2QT8s Still a teenager, he doesn't have much acting experience yet, but he dances beautifully, like his more experienced partner. This is not only his debut in the role, but also the first opening night entrusted to him at the Bolshoi. You can feel how careful he is to avoid making a mistake. And the future is open to him. It will be so interesting to watch his artistic development.

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More Daniil Potaptsev. Today in competition he danced a variation from Taglioni’s "Le papillon” remounted by Pierre Lacotte:

Yesterday, Lavrovsky's original production of "Romeo & Juliet” has returned to the Bolshoi's vast stage, starring Elizaveta Kokoreva and Daniil Potaptsev. I can’t show the final scene, but the curtain calls are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwDs0qZOPw Other casts will follow: Obraztsova - Ovcharenko, Sevenard - Rodkin, Zakharova - Belyakov, Krysanova - Lantratov.

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I found the very first piece that Daniil Potaptsev danced in the 1st tour. Variation of Tahor from "Pharaoh's Daughter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYffGnCyT5w

The ‘Grand Ballet’ TV competition in Moscow is continuing. I am trying to find and watch what is available on internet. A 19-year-old boy from the Bolshoi Theatre DANIIL POTAPTSEV became a revelation for the distinguished judges and, of course, for me. A graduate of the Boris Eifman Ballet Academy, he competes in the junior group (19-22). He has wonderful physique, an easy, light jump and he is very ‘danceable’ - doesn’t just perform steps but really dancing. This is what he has shown up to now: Variation of Siegfried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOx-LQ8TStk “Vestris” by Yacobson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9iLD6NjMP8 Variation of James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDw0Pv5wDGE

Hello again, Geoff. After talking to three Russian ballet critics I contacted a ballet historian Andrei Galkin who has several published works on the history of Swan Lake original and later productions. This is his answer to your question: "There are no documents directly indicating negotiations with Tchaikovsky regarding a new production, but there is clear indirect evidence that Swan Lake was planned to be staged during his lifetime. November 19, 1893 I.A. Vsevolozhsky* submitted a report to the Minister of the Imperial Court with the proposed program for the concert in memory of Tchaikovsky, and it stated: “One act from the ballet “Swan Lake” op. Tchaikovsky (to be staged in the next season).” If we discard the extremely unlikely option in which it was decided to stage “Swan Lake” in the 1894/95 season between October 25** and November 19, then it follows from the report that the issue was decided when Tchaikovsky was alive." --------------------- * I.A. Vsevolozhsky - Director of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters. ** Tchaikovsky died on 25 October 1893.

It will be very good. In Ballet / Dance news & information we already have the topic: RB Summer Period Casting So there will be no need even to open a separate thread.

Tried to buy a ticket for the RBS matinee on 6 July and saw this below. Managed to buy it only after my third attempt. Why can not they improve their system?! Technical error (error 500) Sorry, we are currently experiencing a few technical issues. Please return to the homepage or try again shortly.

I remember very well, Geoff, that I owe you an answer to your question. It took time because I contacted several people whom I could trust on this issue. My good old friend who for decades had been providing the monthly "Letter from St. Petersburg” for The Dancing Times decided first to confer with a colleague who is an expert on XIX c. Russian ballet. This is his reply: "I had a long conversation with O.F., she is super. So, she says that there are no documents regarding the negotiations, since everything was verbal, in thoughts among plans about The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker." I became intrigued myself: if there are no documents regarding the negotiations with Tchaikovsky, then from which source is it known about the verbal negotiations and how this information has survived for over 130 years? I am waiting for a response from another expert, this time in Moscow. He's incredibly meticulous.

The ticket has gone, thank you.

Black dress in 1901! More than a century ago. This seems to be the end of the discussion about when the black dress appeared.. Oh, Sebastian, your post compelled me to dig into the original Moscow edition of Maya Plisetskaya’s memoirs of 1994. I hugely respect her but here I find hard to understand (1) what the word “division” means in this case, (2) why it came from the West and (3) why it was the West that reinterpreted Odile as the black swan. When I saw my very first "Swan Lake" at Bolshoi in 1947, with Plisetskaya & Preobrazhensky, there were the “black” and “white” adagios in different acts, obviously they were different. So what kind of division could come from the West? I carefully keep the brochures of the very first tours of the Paris Opera Ballet (1958) and the Royal Ballet (1961) in Moscow. None of them brought "Swan Lake”, so their tours won’t have any impact on the Russian Swan Lake. (There was also a personal appearance of Beryl Grey in "Swan Lake" in 1958). It looks like the accuracy of some facts even in the memoirs of direct participants might be unclear. Regarding the West’s reinterpretation of Odile as the black swan I am also not sure. Why from her first SL performances in 1940s and throughout her career Plisetskaya danced Odile with enormous wing-like black feathers on her head? Was she a black swan or staged a bird masquerade to deceive the prince, who knows? I like bridiem’s conclusion: "Neither are actually swans, but who cares. I think it's a scintillating story." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQpvZv10q0

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Hello, Roberta. You raised several topics in your post. I will only reply to one where you have responded to my previous post. It is quite possible that for almost 150 years, in numerous SL productions, Odile may well have appeared in dark blue and also various colours. However, at the end of XIX c. Petipa immediately conceived white and black swans, which is an indisputable fact and he implemented it on stage. It is proven by descriptions and photographs of ballerinas of the early XX century. This is why I believe that Alistair Macaulay's statement that "Odile was not dressed in black by any company until the 1940s" is wrong. This is a minor issue. I see that much more important issues are discussed on this page now.