Bolshoi Ballet: More Blood, Mayhem, Torture
For God’s sake why isn’t someone making a backstage miniseries about the Bolshoi Ballet? There’s more blood and intrigue than in an entire season of “The Tudors.” Latest evidence: Joy Womack, the first American to graduate from the Bolshoi’s ballet school, provides further details about the explosive allegations she made (e.g., that she was asked to pay a $10,000 bribe to get cast). And Natalia Osipova (pictured), a critics’ darling, says, “My first five years [at the Bolshoi] were amazing. … Then, slowly, difficulties started and I decided to leave. I didn’t want scandals: our profession is dancing, not politics.’
