to day 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 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 ve

off 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 ballet dancer he joined the fabled 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 cool and only exported tossed to the west. 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 from sergei filin i mean to come here for a full time job in the bush. you know it was obviously. somet

and coming up on our team we talked to ballet star david hallberg about what it's like being the first foreign premier for the famous bolshoitheater spotlight is up next .

all right up next to go off talks to ballet star david hole bug all about what it feels like to be the first foreign premier of moscow's famous bolshoi theater spotlight is now. coming. to a.