

Hot toxic officers doing grand jetés through emotional destruction. Ballet's most beautiful mess.
Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passionate encounters. Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him… The story, based on the larger-than-life hero Pechorin, is adapted from Mikhail Lermontov’s literary masterpiece in three separate stories recounting his heartbreaking betrayals. Is Pechorin a real hero? Or is he a man like any other? This brand new production by choreographer Yuri Possokhov is a tragic poetic journey that can only be seen at the Bolshoi. Filmed live on April 9th 2017.
Acting
Three dancers as one Pechorin—fragmented identity made physical.
Cinematography
Close-ups on muscles trembling with restraint the audience can't see.
Production
Caucasus mountains rendered in bodies and backdrops—epic on stage.

Director
Vincent Bataillon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pechorin is Russia's original 'superfluous man'—the bored aristocrat who destroys because he cannot create, a template for 200 years of literary antiheroes.
Possokhov danced with the Bolshoi before defecting to the US in 1994; this 2017 return production was his homecoming, and he made it about men who cannot belong anywhere.
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