25 January 2007Two triumphs for the Bolshoi Ballet as a result of its English 2006 seasonThe Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company is voted best foreign dance company to have toured in Great Britain in the past season. While its artistic director, Alexei Ratmansky, outdid two English choreographers, to win the Critics' Circle National Dance Award for best choreography (classical). The award giving ceremony took place today at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. The Bolshoi Ballet Company received two nominations for the prestigious, annual English Critics' Circle National Dance Awards. The National Dance Awards patron is the famous English ballerina and former Royal Ballet prima ballerina, Dame Beryl Grey DBE. The Critics' Circle unites about three hundred, mainly English, critics who regularly write on the art of dance. The awards come in four categories: drama, music, cinema and dance. The dance award (classical and modern) was founded in 2001. The Bolshoi Ballet Company won the award for Best Foreign Dance Company to have performed in Britain in the past season (its fellow competitors included the National Ballet of Cuba and the Argentinian Tango por Dos Company). Alexei Ratmansky carried off the Best Choreography (Classical) prize for The Bright Stream, presented in London this summer. His competitors in the finals were Alastair Marriott leading Royal Ballet character dancer (for the one-act ballet Tanglewood, to the music of Ned Rorem’s Violin Concerto, at the Royal Ballet) and Will Tuckett, guest leading Royal Ballet character dancer (for The Canterville Ghost, to music by Martin Ward, at English National Ballet). Submitted on 25 January 2007, Thursday
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