“The Bolshoi may have toned down the black face paint for what can only be described as the ‘golliwog’ dancers in its current staging of La Bayadère, but is it time to get rid of them entirely? For those who haven’t seen or have blanked all memory of these exotic cuties, they are the eight little girls who are deployed as ‘native’ fan bearers in the first two acts of the ballet, and who are periodically let loose in capering, flat-footed dances that barely stop short of them scratching under their armpits. … If we find them difficult to stomach, however, what do we want to happen?”