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Thanks for the info! I have that Sleeping Beauty with Svetlana's jaw dropping Rose Adagio; what a great performance!

Considering all the time and effort that must go into sending these ballets around the world, are they ever available on video afterwards? I would love to be able to see some of them...

Congratulations!! As a new member, and recent balletomane, I need to thank you for opening a window to a world I have known little of and would never learn about without folks like you and all the wonderful YouTube ballet videos! Best wishes for days to come!

If indeed various parts of this article are true, I wonder how widespread many of these things are in the business...

Ah, thanks for clarifying- I will certainly work with that from now on... I have not seen anything really about what may be behind all of this; although there have been rumblings of problems in the past, this obviously seems quite a bit more serious...I wonder if the police have made any progress in dealing with the whole gruesome matter...

Bizarre and rather scary... A renowned Russian ballerina with the famed Bolshoi Theatre has decided against returning home from Canada because she fears for her safety, a Russian newspaper reported Tuesday. In its report, the Izvestia daily cited Svetlana Lunkina as receiving threats and facing blackmail. From the Toronto Star 1/29/13

Humm- in that case the odds go up that it could show up on YouTube! Thanks for the welcome- very happy to be here among people of similar interest!

I have tried to find this one and the few I have seen are a fortune- something like $100! I do hope it will be available somewhere in a reasonable price range...