Today's Bolshoi dancers need to be more versatile, even if their approach remains theatrical.

Like the others, she is allowed to tour with Bolshoi dancers abroad and can appear with the company as a guest.

The Bolshoi dancers have also made more use of a new contract system that permits guest appearances abroad.

It is this kind of commitment that the best of the Bolshoi dancers communicate.

And how today's Bolshoi dancers, so different from their Soviet predecessors, would dance it.

Bolshoi dancers back then were more full-blooded (and full-bodied) than they are today.

But it suits today's Bolshoi dancers, and on its own modest terms it was a sweet success.

Yet, at their City Ballet debut, they looked like Bolshoi dancers.

Nonetheless, he quit as a Bolshoi dancer in 1987.