Classical Symphony
Again fell down a rabbit hole and stumbled upon a new-to-me YouTube channel. And its username is….wait for it….Ballet! What a stroke of luck to lockdown that username early on!! I poked around and I'm guessing that the channel belongs to Mikhail Kryuchkov from the Bolshoi because he's in nearly every video. It's a strangely low-key gold mine, and many of the videos are filmed from the wings of the Bolshoi theater. One that stood out to me is this 2016 Bolshoi performance of Yuri Possokhov's "Classical Symphony," which was originally created for the SFB. Possokhov's choreography completely draws me into the joyous, exhuberance of Prokofiev's score.
I'm reminded that Leonid Lavrosky also choreographed a ballet of the same name, and it's been presented in at least one Vaganova graduation performance. Enjoy the compare and contrast!
