Bolshoi Ballet Academy Due at Pantages
The Bolshoi Ballet Academy will perform at the Pantages Theatre Aug. 1-6, as part of its first U.S. tour in almost 20 years. The six-week, eight-city national tour, will mark the professional debut of 19-year-old Michael Shannon, the first and only North American in the company.
The tour will also feature guest appearances by recent graduates of the academy and performances by Vladimir Malakhov of the Moscow Classical Ballet and Galina Stepanyenko from the Stanislavsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
The Soviet Academy, founded in 1773, is currently under the tutelage of Madame Sophia Golovkina. Each year more than 2,000 applicants from the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries compete for entrance to the school. Only 80 are chosen. This 77-member troupe will open its U.S. tour in Virginia, July 11, and close Aug. 19 in Boston.
Information: (213) 410-1062.
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