Bolshoi Bolero II with Sergei Radchenko

Ravel's Bolero, part 2, from the Bolshoi, around 1966. A young and talented Sergei Radchenko is featured along with Elena Kholina and Alexander Lavreniuk. Radchenko, who is wearing the red jacket in this performance, is now the artistic director of the Russian National Ballet. Take note of the excellent conducting. "Born in 1944, Sergei Radchenko graduated from the Moscow School of Dance in 1964 and then joined the Bolshoi Ballet, where he worked for 25 years. He danced the entire repertoire of Bolshoi, but as a character dancer he possessed great charm, temperament and exquisite taste with a special affinity for Spanish dance, particularly the role of the bullfighter in the Bizet-Shchedrin Carmen Suite production together with Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov. He worked as choreographer in numbers of film productions. He also presents a large number of master-classes, inviting leading teachers from the Bolshoi and Maryinsky theatres to ensure the continuation of rich traditions of the Russian classical school For his work in developing the ballet, he was awarded the title of Honorary Artist of the Soviet Union in 1976. Sergei Radchenko the co-founder and Artistic Director of «Moscow Festival Ballet» company." http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/7362/b_com_rad.html

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