“He is able to embody any movement of the soul in choreography” — this is how they say about the art of the great contemporary choreographer Yuri Grigorovich ...
A photo exhibition “Yuri Grigorovich. Life is like a competition” prepared by the Bakhrushin Theater Museum will be held during the XIV International Ballet Competition on the Arbat Street, 28 and in the Museum of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia (the Historical Stage), Its title contains a semantic reflection of the creative life of the master: these are victories and ups, the search for new forms, as well as the constant striving for something new, talented, perfect. «The Stone Flower», «The Legend of Love», «Spartacus», «Ivan the Terrible», «The Golden Age» ... Thanks to these performances, we comprehend the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, the «psychological, political, satirical, grotesque, academic, avant-garde» theater … The pages of the history of the International Ballet Competition introduce us to the art of ballet of the century past and the century present through the prism of the names of its winners and laureates.