Prokofiev - Ivan the Terrible / Mukhamedov, Bessmertnova, Taranda, Zhuraitis, Bolshoi Ballet
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Actor: Bolshoi Opera Ballet, Irek Mukhamedov, Natalya BessmertnovaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arthaus Musik
DVD Reviews of Prokofiev - Ivan the Terrible / Mukhamedov, Bessmertnova, Taranda, Zhuraitis, Bolshoi Ballet
DVD Review: Great Dancers Wasted
Summary: 2 Stars
If you've ever tried to decide who the worst choreographer of the twentieth century was, Maurice Bejart or Yuri Grigorovich, this ballet, or this production of it at any rate, may help you to settle on the latter. The technically brilliant Bolshoi dancers emote and leap about in an exhausting two hours of relentless but utterly pointless dance. The eye-rolling and huge gestures characteristic of Grigorovich's direction count for nothing here. Elegant, long-legged ballerinas mince around on point for no reason whatsoever. There's nary a bourree to be seen. And the costumes! The dancers are upholstered and slipcovered rather than costumed. You know there must be wonderful, expressive bodies under all that drapery, but you don't get to see them. Mukhamedov wears tights, a doublet, a Speedo embroidered with Mylar, and loincloths, front and back. What a waste! And his is not the silliest costume by a long shot. And all these people dance like crazy with extraordinary line and vigor--to no effect. (Some of those grand Bolshoi lifts almost don't come off, though.) It's all so driven and difficult. I won't comment on the score used for the ballet except to say that it's "arranged" from Prokofiev's film scores. Poor man, he was still suffering indignities at the hands of Soviet functionaries after being dead for more than thirty years.
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