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Nureyev poster at the Bolshoi Theatre (Valeri Sharifulin/TASS)
09 DEC 17
Nureyev, the most notorious new production in the Bolshoi Ballet’s modern history, premiered last night [Saturday, 8 December] in Moscow to a 15-minute standing ovation and exclamations of official approval even by Putin’s press secretary – but the ballet’s creator and director languished under house arrest, refused permission to see his own ballet. Members of the creative team took the curtain calls at the great colonnaded theatre by the Kremlin wearing T-shirts with the face of Kirill Serebrennikov on them, while spectators chanted “Kirill! Kirill!”, according to news reports.
Read the rest of this article on The Arts Desk, where it was originally published.
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"The ballet's creator languished under house arrest, refused permission to see his own ballet"