{"id":910,"date":"2008-09-16T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/09\/russian-ratmansky-ivades-american-ballet\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:17:35","slug":"russian-ratmansky-ivades-american-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/16\/russian-ratmansky-ivades-american-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Ratmansky Invades American Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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DANCE<\/nyt_kicker><\/p>\n

New Home for an Artist, New Hope for American Ballet Theater<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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Jennifer Taylor for The New York Times<\/p>\n

Alexei Ratmansky\u2019s \u201cBright Stream,\u201d with Anastasia Yatsenko, center, at the Metropolitan Opera House.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0ALASTAIR MACAULAY<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s news that Alexei Ratmansky, the departing artistic director of the\u00a0Bolshoi Ballet<\/a>, has been appointed artist in residence at\u00a0American Ballet Theater<\/a>\u00a0came as a major surprise. These are glad tidings.<\/p>\n

Ballet Theater is a major company that needs a resident choreographer. For years it has been churning out its gifted but varied dancers across a range of largely stale productions; Mr. Ratmansky and\u00a0Christopher Wheeldon<\/a>\u00a0are the two most able and remarkable choreographers working in international ballet. Since Mr. Ratmansky announced earlier this year that he was leaving his job as artistic director of the Bolshoi, anyone who has admired his work must have been hoping he would soon find a company worthy of his talents.<\/p>\n

In the context of Russian ballet over the last 80 years, Mr. Ratmansky looked like a mold-breaker. The Soviet Union certainly produced some very popular choreographers, notably Leonid Lavrovsky (whose \u201cRomeo and Juliet,\u201d though short on real dancing, was the Bolshoi\u2019s great sensation in the 1940s and \u201950s) and Yuri Grigorovich (whose \u201cSpartacus,\u201d though trashy in its repetitious slam-bam emphasis, packed an irresistible punch from the late \u201960s to the late \u201980s). The late Soviet period produced\u00a0Boris Eifman<\/a>, whose often ludicrous choreography managed to stir audiences and win some degree of international acclaim even in this decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cRomeo\u201d and \u201cSpartacus\u201d did much to define everyone\u2019s idea of the Bolshoi in those decades. Mr. Ratmansky has not yet choreographed any hit remotely as big. Perhaps he never will. Still, he seems the finest Russian choreographer \u2014 in terms of dance poetry \u2014 since\u00a0George Balanchine<\/a>, who left Russia in 1924.<\/p>\n

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from the New York Times DANCE New Home for an Artist, New Hope for American Ballet Theater Jennifer Taylor for The New York Times Alexei Ratmansky\u2019s \u201cBright Stream,\u201d with Anastasia Yatsenko, center, at the Metropolitan Opera House.\u00a0 By\u00a0ALASTAIR MACAULAY Wednesday\u2019s news that Alexei Ratmansky, the departing artistic director of the\u00a0Bolshoi Ballet, has been appointed artist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}