| This look at the Moscow Choreographic School, generally known around the world as the Bolshoi Ballet School begins with a brief introduction by the director of the school, Marina Leonova. She is in the same position in Moscow as Altynai Asylmuratova is in St Petersburg with the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. Then the group of girls in the first year class introduce themselves as first year students. After that, various ages of students all profess to wanting to dance for the Bolshoi Ballet. If the same question was asked at the Vaganova School, all would profess to wanting to dance for the Mariinsky Ballet.. On a big stage, they show rehearsal of the Prokofiev Classical Symphony with Margarita Shrayner, 2011 graduate as the girl in the center. Later, they show a private rehearsal of one movement from the Prokofiev Classical Symphony with Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Marina Leonova coaching a young couple, whose names ilyaballet would know, but I do not. |
