Despite – or perhaps emboldened further by – Misty Copeland’s criticism of the Bolshoi’s use of blackface, the theatre’s general director says, “La Bayadere ballet has been performed in this way thousands of times in Russia and abroad and the Bolshoi Theater will not engage in such a discussion.” The last time it was performed in NY, however, the Bolshoi chose to clad dancers in black clothes instead. – Radio Free Europe