#kristina kretova

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”For the woman that asked what variation they were learning, Jonathan Still tells me it is the (“Variation de Mlle. Fanny Cerrito”) from Grand Pas De Quatre (Anton Dolin/Cesare Pugni).” - Ian Comer, Admin. of the IBMP Blog

Thank you, Ian Comer, for having Jonathan Still (whose blog on insights about ballet accompaniment is FIRE) identify the ballet variation for this curious dance history buff! Here’s the whole ballet work in full, here danced by Elisa Carrillo Cabrera, Yolanda Correa, Kristina Kretova, and Evelina Godunova. (The variation I queried about to the IBMP guys starts at 10:45.)

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Prudence Duvorney’s green dress from The Lady of the Camellias. Designed by Jürgen Rose.

[mastomysowner]

Mice in the library by Марина Поспелова-Ежевская

Artist's comment: Story by Kristina Kretova for the project "Friend for Friend" about friendship between people and animals)) In May 2019, the publishing house PiterChildhood published a book with illustrations))

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Marco Spada Updates!

The Bolshoi has released their casting for the revival of Marco Spada in June and I’m excited for 99% of them!

I am excited for all the Angelas: Evgenia Obraztsova, Ekaterina Krysanova, Eleonora Sevenard, and Elizaveta Kokoreva.  I am sad that Kristina Kretova isn’t cast as Angela because she did dance her in 2013, but oh well.

I’m excited for 3 out of 4 of the Marco Spadas: Artemy Belyakov, Artem Ovcharenko, Dmitry Smilevsky, and Igor Tsvirko.  This role doesn’t seem to suit Tsvirko because it’s so elegant petit allegro and he is not that type of dancer.  Idk, maybe he’ll be amazing.

The Marquise Sampietris are okay: Eva Sergeyenkova, Alena Kovaleva, Maria Vinogradova, and Kristina Kretova.  I don’t really have feelings about this except for my general feelings about these dancers as a whole.

Prince Fredericis are cast okay: Semyon Chudin, Klim Efimov, Dmitry Vyskubenko, and Denis Zakharov.  Obviously it’s amazing Chudin is dancing this role again because he’s so good at it.  I like Zakharov, don’t know much about Vyskubenko, and Efimov never impresses me.  

So as a whole, I think it’s shaping to be a great showing and I’m so glad Marco Spada is back!!!

[steebtiny]

I know you said we should not be using common sense when predicting bolshoi broadcast performance but a little surprised for the rubies section you didn’t predict ovcharenko and krysanova. Are they not favored by management anymore?

Oh no, they're definitely well-liked by management and by the audience too. I made those predictions before knowing that they're casting some people the second time in the same ballet, which was unprecedented. Krysanova danced Rubies in the 2014 broadcast, so I thought it would be different this time. Kretova and Tsvirko have been dancing Rubies a lot recently, more so than Krysanova and Ovcharenko, although that's partly because Krysanova was injured a while back. Knowing what we know now, it's definitely possible that Krysanova and Ovcharenko are dancing Rubies in the coming broadcast (they're dancing Rubies on Nov 11), but I think Kretova and Tsvirko also have equal chances. We also know that the Bolshoi is not against casting Tsvirko in broadcasts, and IMO they have a lot more choices for Rubies than for Spartacus. Spartacus is one of BT's staple ballets after all, it has a special status and perhaps Grigorovich has some influence over the broadcast casting and specifically asked for certain people. So maybe Jewels would be an entirely new cast. Idk.

[galina-ulanova]

Kristina Kretova as Hermione, and Igor Tsvirko as Leontes, in The Winter’s Tale (Bolshoi Ballet, 2019)

[lovelyballetandmore]

Kristina Kretova | Igor Tsvirko | Bolshoi Ballet | Photos Natalia Voronova

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Kristina Kretova and Semen Chehudin in Bluebeard - Photo by Katya Kravtsova

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Exciting that Kristina Kretova is debuting Mekhemene Banu soon! I hope there will be some good footage.

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Ruslan Skvortsov and Kristina Kretova after Bolshoi’s The Bright Stream

Photo via Kristina’s Instagram

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Boris Akimov was the best thing about the Bolshoi’s live stream during World Ballet Day. Denis Rodkin getting silly with Kristina Kretova was the second best thing.

[fuckyeahrussianoverlords]

Kristina Kretova and Alexei Yagudin from Bolero

source: x

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Drop everything and watch it

A Hero of Our Time - Bolshoi Ballet 2017

Svetlana Zakharova, Olga Smirnova, Kristina Kretova, Ekaterina Shipulina, Igor Tsvirko, Artem Ovcharenko, Ruslan Skvortsov

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Grand Pas de Deux Electrique (2017) at the Dance Open Ballet Festival, April Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Kristina Kretova in Flames of Paris.

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Osiel Gouneo and Kristina Kretova in Don Quixote

Dance Open 

From Osiel’s Instagram account