On n'osait pas imaginer une telle situation il y a quelques années. Il y a 50 ans Rudolf Nureyev devenait le premier soviétique à danser dans une troupe américaine.
"David Hallberg, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, is becoming the first American star to enlist permanently with the fabled Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow. Mr. Hallberg, 29, who was born in Rapid City, S.D., will hold the coveted status of premier, the Bolshoi term for principal dancer, even as he continues performing with Ballet Theater.
“Personally, I feel a sense of responsibility as an American,” Mr. Hallberg said on Tuesday, adding that he was proud to join such a historic company. “I will be bringing something different to the company, but I will also be respecting their traditions as well.”
He said he was aware of the unique responsibility entailed in being a first. “There will be people watching,” he said. “I have to do it justice.”
Many Russians have headed westward since Nureyev’s defection at a Paris airport in 1961, most notably Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1974. The end of the cold war later erased the phenomenon of defecting dancers. It also made it easier for Westerners to go to Russia, but the Bolshoi and the Kirov Ballet of Leningrad, now the Mariinsky of St. Petersburg, had no need for imports, churning out carefully cultivated stars from their own rigorous schools.
Few foreigners joined, and no stars. “They don’t need ’em,” said Jane Hermann, a longtime dance agent who once represented the Bolshoi. “That’s the main reason. Until recently the Russians have been turning out some of the best dancers in the world.”
But in March a new artistic director, Sergei Filin, took over at the Bolshoi, and he had different ideas. He had seen Mr. Hallberg perform during a “Kings of the Dance” tour in Russia, as well as during a Ballet Theater visit.
“He is a remarkable romantic and classical dancer,” Mr. Filin said in a telephone interview from Moscow on Monday."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/arts/dance/american-to-join-the-bolshoi-ballet.html?hp#&wtoeid=growl1_r1_v2
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