A child's play at Bolshoi Ballet
- 11 years ago
Moscow's historic Bolshoi Theater is entertaining a new kind of audience - children.
It's famed ballet company is performing "Moidodyr," a dance performance based on a Soviet-era fairytale by Korney Chukovsky.
The ballet tells the story of a boy who refuses to wash, and gets so dirty that in a magical twist of fate, his toys come alive and abandon him.
While the performance surely thrilled the young audience, Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin says that it's equally entertaining for adults.
SOUNDBITE: Bolshoi Ballet Artistic Director, Sergei Filin, saying (Russian)
"I think that the parents and adults will enjoy it more, because when they were little it is possible that they have never seen it performed like this."
Moidodyr is the name of a one of the characters, a giant washing basin, which sends an army of cleaning utensils after the boy to make him to wash.
While the story is based on a children's poem, the choreography is no child's play, fusing classical dance with circus tricks and acrobatics.
"Moidodyr" is set to premiere on December 21.
It's famed ballet company is performing "Moidodyr," a dance performance based on a Soviet-era fairytale by Korney Chukovsky.
The ballet tells the story of a boy who refuses to wash, and gets so dirty that in a magical twist of fate, his toys come alive and abandon him.
While the performance surely thrilled the young audience, Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin says that it's equally entertaining for adults.
SOUNDBITE: Bolshoi Ballet Artistic Director, Sergei Filin, saying (Russian)
"I think that the parents and adults will enjoy it more, because when they were little it is possible that they have never seen it performed like this."
Moidodyr is the name of a one of the characters, a giant washing basin, which sends an army of cleaning utensils after the boy to make him to wash.
While the story is based on a children's poem, the choreography is no child's play, fusing classical dance with circus tricks and acrobatics.
"Moidodyr" is set to premiere on December 21.