The Dance
Rivals part 2…
The Bolshoi’s new season opened with a gala that was meant to bury the hatchet: Nikolai and Daniil, side by side on the playbill for the first time, performing the Diana and Actaeon pas de deux. Thirty-two fouettés for him, a brutal series of double tours and barrel jumps for Nikolai, and a final lift that required absolute, murderous trust.
Backstage, t…
