Ballet
READ: Aspen Music Festival CEO Alan Fletcher's Convocation Speech (Part Two)
READ: Aspen Music Festival CEO Alan Fletcher's Convocation Speech (Part One)
"Each summer I like to say something hopeful and encouraging to all who gather here: ready to work, ready to be part of something wonderful, ready to create something beautiful and meaningful. And this summer is no different. I have so much confidence in you, and confidence in what we are doing. I believe in you, in your gifts, and especially in your ability to use very hard, purposeful work to make something of lasting value from those gifts. I believe what we do is important and that our society values it, as it should." BREAKING: Anatoly Iksanov, Head of the Bolshoi, Has Been Fired
The Russian government dismissed the head of the revered but scandal-plagued Bolshoi Theater on Tuesday, six months after a hit man hired by one of its dancers threw acid in the face of its ballet director.
