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
Igor Tsvirko
Pechorin (Bela)
Olga Smirnova
Bela
Artem Ovcharenko
Pechorin (Taman)
Ekaterina Shipulina
Undine
Vyacheslav Lopatin
Old Woman / Yanko
Ruslan Skvortsov
Pechorin (Mary)
Svetlana Zakharova
Mary
Kristina Kretova
Vera
Denis Savin
Grushnitsky
Alexander Vodopetov
Kazbich
Georgy Gusev
Two Mountaineers / Blind Boy / Wounded Soldier
Vasiliy Danilchuk
Mountaineer / Smuggler
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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