talks to star david hole bug what it feels like to be the first foreign premier of moscow's famous bolshoi theater that's in spotlight right now here on our team. however again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. and i'll bring all of them my guest on the show is david. today are as you see inside the bolshoi theater which after six years of renovation is opened once again for opera and ballet but not only the building but the company itself has changed it is changed dramatically for the first time in centuries first first time in the history of the bolshoi a foreigner has been hired as a main dancer in the ballet company of the bolshoi what is it is it the end of the bolshoi as we know it and as the world there was no knows it or is it the beginning of a new era of this old and famous theater we'll be talking about it to one of the most famous dancers in the world now the principal dancer of the bolshoi ballet company the harbor. david hallberg is an award winning performer and the united states number one bill a dancer who joined the people to american ballet theatre at t

a foreigner has been hired as a main dancer in the ballet company of the bolshoi what is it is it the end of the bolshoi as we know it and as the world now knows it or is it the beginning of a new era of this old and famous theater we'll be talking about it to one of the most famous dancers in the world now the principal dancer of the bolshoi ballet company the harbor. david hallberg is an award winning performer and the united states number one bill a dancer who joined the people to american ballet theatre at the age of twenty in just a few years became its principal dancer mr holder his journey to moscow to join the bolshoi theater company's truly symbolic until now russia has carefully preserved his conservative beliefs school and only exported death was tossed to the west. hello david welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us pleasure to be here david well first of all i'd like to know how surprising was it for you when you got the invitation from the new artistic director of the bolshoi from from sergei filin i mean to come here for a full time job in the bush. yo

you know i really hope i i leave the experience and rich from the bolshoi. theatre but i also hope that the bolshoi theatre leaves this experience and richard as well i mean having learned from someone who does and who doesn't come from the school who doesn't come from the interior and has a different kind of style and way of of doing things and dancing and they're inspired and changed as well because it would be nice that if it would become full circle like that rather than me just leaving the experience having gained everything in them then just saying you know with anya you you think the russians are ready to learn from you i certainly hope so because i'm ready to learn from the russians they're not all that conservative good this is one of the most conservative places in the whole world yes but we speak we speak a similar language i speak english they speak russian but we speak the language of ballet if you leave we do less question probably what's been the most difficult parts of your russian experience so far. i think the most difficult part was making

sorry structure grandeur to the bolshoi but that doesn't mean everything remains archaic here the bolshoi now boasts a brand new on the grounds stage which can move up and down while the demand for tickets still exceeds supply the theatre introduced excursions inside so that more people can get closer to the magic of their innovated bolshoi. can you remember when did you see a bulge performance for the first time in your life. you know i think i first saw the company perform only a couple of years ago and i did it as a whole and i've always seen dancers and dollars and things but i saw a balanchine program a couple of years ago and i was amazingly impressed obviously and then i saw flames of paris like i said which was a fantastic experience i mean it's just it was it was so so inspiring you know most of the artists come to moscow they like to say good words about the russian audiences but the russians picked it's russian theater it was that the russian audience is the best in the world. is true or people are trying to be nice and probably be yeah you have to be nice to the public yes of

to day are as you see inside the bolshoi theater which to six years of renovation is opened once again for opera and ballet but not only the building but the company itself has changed it is changed dramatically for the first time in centuries first first time in the history of the bolshoi a foreigner has been hired as i'm a dancer in the ballet company of the. what is it is it the end of the bolshoi as we know it and as the world knows it or is it the beginning of a new era of this old and famous theater we'll be talking about it to one of the most famous dancers in the world now the principal dancer on the bolshoi ballet company. david hallberg is an award winning performer and the united states number one bill a dancer who joined the fabled american ballet theatre at the age of twenty in just a few years became its principal dancer used to hold his journey to moscow to join the bolshoi theatre companies truly symbolic until now russia has carefully preserved his conservative beliefs school and only exported tossed to the west. to welcome to the show thank you very much for being wit

him do you think that the bolshoi today still is a reference in the ballet world is it. as great a label as it used to be most definitely without a doubt i mean the bolshoi ballet. is still a household name as we say in english meaning that everyone knows the bullshit about when the bullshit comes to america when the bolshoi makes a tour to japan everybody knows the bolshoi ballet and the fact that it is one of the top companies in the world it's without a doubt you know this is a changing in the twenty first century because i mean in the twentieth century even even the critics of the soviet system said well ok outer space and the bolshoi ballet the russians are beatable today is changing it's a day you just said one of the greatest companies of the world yes well art is a matter of opinion always and so there are french audiences that would say that the purpose of her belly is the best company in the world it is by far one of the best companies in the world so is the bolshoi so is the marine ski you know. it's just that's the way it is i mean it really is a matter of op

very important to make a substantial commitment to the bolshoi theatre. veteran he's your coach and he he works in the us and he does you know english enough to to to communicate with you to most different in the way but you know it doesn't harbor my my interest to learn russian because i am in russia you know and i do need to start speaking the language so both an opportunity and a definitely good speakers are very bad language so you've got. my hands full yes i you living already or you just plain just to pick it up i mean no you know i think i lived in france for a year and the best education is living in the country and so you speak french. language is yes you know like your fellow know because most of them not like the stereotypical. but you know is the best the best way to learn the language and learn the russian language and is really just to be in rehearsal to be every day in moscow just making a fool of yourself and really trying out the language to talk yes exactly ok. did you have to study something did you have to take some special training to

as the main cultural symbol of russia twenty eleven saw the bolshoi theatre finally returned to its former glory striking day or night illuminated exterior now shines proud of the years of being covered by scaffolding canvas and building materials. the reconstruction took six years and cost billions of rubles but now the fall of space is open to the public it can continue to nurture and showcase the present and future of russian and international talent. it's a once in a lifetime experience or for me yeah it's. going out on to the stage and seeing really. how big it is and now granite is and how beautiful the restoration has been it's it's really once in a lifetime. next up on one of our favorite moscow shows of the year was filmed the star city the cosmonaut training facility originally secret ample space we ventured off to russia's only school for cosmonauts and then i was put through a whole range of training procedures underwater weightlessness zero gravity and being spun around inside a centrifuge. it really pushed me to my limit. the program also highlighted how american astronaut so

twelve months and what had to be the most exciting events of the whole year the reopening of the bolshoi theatre . as the main cultural symbol of russia twenty eleven sort of states to find the rich and to its former glory striking day or night illumination exterior now shines out after years of being covered by scaffolding canvas and build.

on the seabed near the bolshoi christofi island there are underwater gardens of kelp scattered about. cold water is the best environment for this seaweed. fish move slowly through the cold water. the seabed. so used to the divers and often let them come up very close. they look so menacing and then on to even afraid of bright light. the thread like tentacles of the sea anemones give the seabed a fluffy comment. c.n.n. money's feed on plankton and other old comic particles the given to take greenpeace to the water of the white sea. her here we sure had a mortar. it was true ari didn't want to come where. we only need ice cream that's going to be have an. effect after that. thing where you. go. for quite a few people the underwater world is not the only attraction of the white sea it's smooth ice is an excellent environment to kite sledging fountains. only camilla failed often visits this remote place in the past he would only dive into the ice with scuba gear now he prefers to ride over the top with a special sledge and a parachute you know it but almost what i like a book kite sledgin

massive mountain range this is the cold and windy bolshoi's. the snow here is between one and a half and four meters deep avalanche safety specialists are probing the snow structure on one of the slopes. the top layer of snow drifts on a slope is unstable and skis could trigger an avalanche shift attention those of you who are keen to scull mountain thinks please be careful. some avalanches a wet others a dry it all depends on the snows composition the speed of avalanches varies between seventy and four hundred kilometers an hour man can do nothing in the face of tons of snow rushing down to such a velocity. and yet people do live in the mountains they study avalanches to be able to protect themselves from each year skiers and snowboarders tempt fate by taking to the mountain slopes. in this weather station in the q.b. massive is situated close to the town of one hundred fifty kilometers north of the arctic circle it is one of the instruments of the avalanche safety service it records dozens of readings several times a day snow and ground tempe

and perhaps the most exciting part of yesterday in some ways was going in standing outside the bolshoi theatre it's been a dream of mine it's been great the people. so far and i hope i get to see some of the. figure dates out here but it's very tough. so many tourists come here let's get the christmas eve it's beautiful it's beautiful city going you know seeing the christmas trees exclusive interview moving on and working capital is a totally different place during the summer months terraces dominate the restaurant scene and people can enjoy a whole range of sun filled activities including some bathing swimming and water sports temperatures are high and so is the entity of the capital's entertainment let's take a look at some of the shows we produced during the summer highlighting popular tourist destinations logs. and excursions. in the capital heats up tens of thousands of sun worshippers. forests seventy is an island surrounded by an artificial lake two ways some a show in the area i took to a jet ski to prove how much metropolis in the summer the. temperatures of. the trip to one o

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another cash injection to boost russia's landmark bolshoi theatre that's despite a six year long renovation project which has already cost more than seven hundred million dollars. christians are celebrating all around the world christmas central. in the orthodox christian year the celebration comes thirteen days after western christmas in accordance with the julian calendar around two hundred million people follow the eastern tradition of worship from palestine to bosnia over seventy countries celebrate the birth of christ and of the twenty forty day fast that perceives the celebrations in moscow gathered at christ the savior cathedral on the banks of the moscow river for a nighttime vigil for all of the joint. celebrating christmas and here in russia that was ushered in with a traditional service here at the christ the say because in the center of the russian capital that service presided over by the patriarch of moscow. the heads of the russian orthodox church attended by the great and the good the dignitaries old russian society president dmitri medvedev as well as see me a pig is attend

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