June 6, 2009
Bolshoi performs ‘La Bayadère’ at Cal Performances
Demi, demi, grande plié, relevé...
Behind a lavish scrim of Oriental patterns lies an exotic world figured and reconfigured in over a century’s worth of imaginings by some of ballet’s most legendary dancers and choreographers.
Palm trees and waterfalls, sacred fires, airborne scarves of evanescent lightness and rhinestone-bedecked costumes are only the outward manifestations of the great Bolshoi Ballet’s production of La Bayadère that was performed at...