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...TIFFist to a few of the films they love. Handling cites Rendition, Thomas McCarthy's The Visitor and It's a Free World ... from the veteran writer-director team of Paul Laverty and Ken Loach. Cowan recommends Penn's Into the Wild, the Guy Maddin "docu-fantasia" My Winnipeg and Nothing Is Private from Alan Ball, writer of American Beauty, which, in 1999, had its world premier at Toronto on its way to a Best Picture Oscar...
...dancer Vasiliev, who was unceremoniously dismissed in 2000 by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself. The short-lived replacements were all part of Russian ballet's insular old guard. "They were doing Sleeping Beauty the way it had always been done," says Andre Lewis, artistic director of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, North America's second oldest ballet company. "The Bolshoi was stultified. It needed to change...
...1970s, Western dance began to catch up. Rising companies like the American Ballet Theater, the San Francisco Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Winnipeg began producing challenging new works. The Bolshoi, meanwhile, under the longtime leadership of artistic director Yuri Grigorovich and ideologically locked behind the Iron Curtain, simply stopped updating its repertoire. By the time the cold war's walls started to fall...
Enter Ratmansky. Born in St. Petersburg, trained at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography and boasting professional experience with Ukraine's Kiev Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg and seven years with the Royal Copenhagen Ballet, he had already staged his productions at the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg, as well as a new production of Anna Karenina in Copenhagen. His knowledge of Western dance and his strength as a choreographer were, according to Bolshoi Theater director general Anatoly Iksanov, just what the company needed to reclaim its standing in the newly modernized world of ballet. With impressive choreography credentials...
...choreographer," Ratmansky says. Unlike years past, when a dancer's name - like Baryshnikov or Maximova - would be a key advertising point, at the new Bolshoi it is choreographers Wheeldon and Tharp who are the big draws. Their arrival in Moscow "heralds a more youthful, flexible approach to choreography," says Winnipeg's Lewis. "What Ratmansky is doing may change ballet...