"Bolshoi Babylon" examines the famed Moscow ballet company during the period after an acid attack on its director.
Founded to honor the memory of Vladimir Dokoudovsky, the dancers' teacher, and named after the famed Nijinsky ballet, the company will perform works by Miho Maeda, including "Carmen" and a piece set to music of Astor Piazzolla.
"A great conflict gives birth to great people," Boris Messerer, a famed Bolshoi Ballet set designer, said as he walked to the funeral arm in arm with the poet Bella Akhmadulina.
Mikhail Baryshnikov, the famed Russian ballet dancer and actor who defected from the former Soviet Union in 1974, warned in a video released Wednesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could bring Soviet-style authoritarianism to the United States.
The Trocks' gimmick, which has kept it together and dancing to sold-out houses for decades, is an affectionate travesty that skewers the famed Russian ballets, with their noble repertories and knife-edge technique, and equally the bulldozer ballerinas who would smilingly cold-cock any corps member audacious enough to block the sightline of a fouetté.
Earlier that year, Tchaikovsky had completed the composition of Swan Lake, which was the first in his famed trilogy of ballets.
The American composer George Antheil raised a ruckus with the cacophony of his famed machine-age score, "Ballet Mécanique," in 1926 in Paris.
Other women who have made their billions through fashion include New Yorker Tory Burch (famed for her £200 ballet flats), and 42-year-old Sara Blakely, who in 2012 became the youngest self-made female billionaire thanks to Spanx, her bone-crushing underwear range.
