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He also was the choreographer behind the Romeo and Juliet the Bolshoi did in the 00's and toured. Someone at the Bolshoi thought it was a good idea to make Declan Donnellan, a British theater director, in charge, and he was paired with Poklitaru. This was critic Rachel Howard's description:His page on Wikipedia; he worked on 'Hamlet' in Bolshoi in 2015
www.sfgate.com/entertainment/amp/Bolshoi-takes-a-swing-at-modernity-in-Romeo-and-2638133.phpDonnellan has been matched with a choreographer too inexperienced to do the job. Radu Poklitaru, a former Bolshoi dancer, aims for the fluency and frankness of European dance theater but comes up short. Think of the cartoonishness of Sweden's Mats Ek mixed with the limb-flailing aggression of France's Angelin Preljocaj -- but sans the structural sophistication.
I saw this in Seattle with the then-young and (still) brilliant Maria Alexandrova and Denis Savin, and found Howard's review on target. It would have been dire, if it wasn't so in parts and the leads weren't so
In a four-minute program, given the standards of ISU judges, the structural weaknesses of his choreography will go unnoticed, and, given his style, I think B/S will take to him like ducks to water.