The Bolshoi Ballet: A Contemporary Evening

A filmed theatre screening from Moscow with music by Benjamin Britten, Max Richter, Ludwig van Beethoven and Leonid Desyatnikov, with choreography by Hans Van Manen, Sol León, Paul Lightfoot and Alexei Ratmansky and featuring the Bolshoi principals, soloists and corps de ballet.

For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a bold new challenge in Hans Van Manen’s Frank Bridge’s Variations, Sol León and Paul Lightfoot’s Short Time Together and Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons.

This encounter between some of the best dancers in the world and the masters of contemporary choreography results in an outstanding synthesis, raising Van Manen’s formal beauty, León and Lightfoot’s intensity, and Ratmansky’s witty brilliance to a new level.