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| 1. What does "bolshoi" mean? | |
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The word "bolshoi" means the best of all in Russia. Anybody dare to get it without given talent and efforts. When the first tour happened in 1988 - 1989, the press was full of appraisals: the journalists in Paris called the Theatre "Bolshoi on Ice!!!". After being crowned with success the Theatre was awarded another name, Moscow Stars on Ice. |
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| 2. History | |
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Bobrin's Ice Theatre was founded in February 1986. Its first performance
took place in Tcheliabinsk. At the very beginning there were only
9 artists in the Theatre and they performed together with variety
artists. But the dream was to become independent. This resulted in
the first production - "Silent Movie, or Meditations on the Theme
of Charlie Chaplin" - in a burlesque-ballet style to the libretto
of Iljia Reznik (choreography - Natalia Dabbadie). The success of
the "Silent Movie" was beyond all expectations. Alongside with this, the Theatre artists created a winter "aerobics on the snow" program for the Russian TV. And during two years this program was transmitted in winter for the whole Russia by three TV channels. All aerobics fans were dancing together with the USSR, European, World and Olympic champions. |
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| 3. Repertoire | |
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"Silent Movie" (Charlie Chaplin's theme, music by Chaplin
and Gerschwin) "Rasputin" (Music by Alexander Gradsky) "Faust XX Century" (Music by Mikhail Tchekalin) "Adventure" (Music by Alexander Gradsky, Jewish Folk music) "Roxy bar and Divertissement pieces" "Talisman" (music by Bernstein- specially for children) "We Love Classics" (music by Tchajkovsky, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Mendelssohn, Khatchaturian, Paganini, Ravel, Bach, Hemer Berger and other composers) "Jungle Story" "Tango" In 1998 the artistic director and choreographer
of the Theatre, Igor Bobrin, effected a production of the new performance,
"Alice In Wonderland" after the book of Lewis Carrol (music
by Alexander Rosenblatt) which has already been shown in Seoul (35
performances) and toured in Switzerland and France for almost two
months. |
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| 4. Characteristics | |
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the secret of such a success lay in the fact that the artistic combination
of theatre action with ice ballet gave birth to an absolutely new
genre, and Bobrin's Ice Theatre was the first that followed this absolutely
unknown way. And first of all there are many champions who can create
a wonderful show. The theatre has got great experience in wide range performing: from the Olympic stadium in Sapporo to a summer park in Italy, in the USA (Florida) and Euro Disney in Paris, a lot of year of independent artistic and organizational work, 21 countries (in some of them the theatre performed 4-5 times), 8 performances, more than 60 pieces in a divertissement, which allows to adapt the program for any public, any area, any stage. As a rule, theatre performances consist of two parts (a one-act ballet and ice divertissement) with the duration of 110-120 minutes, including a 15-minutes break for the ice preparation. |
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| 5. Tour | |
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the very beginning and until now tours of the Theatre have been very
successful not only in Russia, but also abroad in such countries as
Germany and Holland, Denmark and Switzerland, Andorra and Austria,
Israel and Bahrain, Korea (both North and South), Poland, as well
as the USA, Japan, Turkey, Taiwan, France and Italy. It was a success that was followed by tours all over the world. |
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| 6. Artists | |
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In 1988, after Natalia Bestemianova together
with Andrei Bukin won their Olympic Gold in Calgary, they became
the leading soloists of the Theatre. BESTEMIANOVA NATALIA - BUKIN ANDREI 1983-1988 Europe Championship- 1 BOBRIN IGOR 1980 USSR Championship- 1 ALEXEI URMANOV 1994 Olympic Games- 1 ANDREY BUSHKOV & MARINA ELTSOVA 1992 Russian National Championships- 1 |
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