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MOSCOW — Russia’s Bolshoi Theater has eliminated a ballet devoted to dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, citing a brand new Russian regulation that expands restrictions on actions seen as selling LGBT rights, its director stated Wednesday.
Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin stated the ballet “Nureyev” had been dropped “in reference to the newly signed regulation, which unambiguously offers with points associated to propaganda of non-traditional values,” the Interfax information company reported.
The regulation signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in December bans promoting, media and on-line assets, books, movies and theater productions deemed to comprise “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations,” increasing a 2013 ban on such ”propaganda” geared toward minors.
The ban on any “demonstration of non-traditional relations” contained within the new regulation apparently prompted the Bolshoi to tug the ballet as a result of it touches on Nureyev’s homosexuality.
Rights teams have harshly criticized the regulation as a state encouragement of homophobia, intolerance and discrimination.
Nureyev, a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer, defected from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961.
The ballet choreographed by outstanding theater and movie director Kirill Serebrennikov premiered in 2017. Its performances scheduled for the final yr had been cancelled after Serebrennikov criticized Moscow’s navy motion in Ukraine and left Russia.
Final month, the Bolshoi additionally cancelled one other Serebrennikov manufacturing, the ballet “A Hero of Our Time” that was alleged to premier in Could. It didn’t give any motive for the cancellation.