Plisetskaya to Return With Bolshoi

Maya Plisetskaya, one of the most revered and enduring of dance artists, will head a contingent of 14 Bolshoi Ballet principals and soloists in a program at Shrine Auditorium on April 24, sponsored by the Ambassador Foundation.

Plisetskaya, 62, is scheduled to perform Roland Petit’s pas de deux “La Rose Malade” (set to the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony) and Mikhail Fokine’s solo “The Dying Swan” (music by Saint-Saens). She also danced both of these works at Shrine Auditorium in her last local appearance, with a “Stars of the Bolshoi” company, in 1974.

Other principal Bolshoi dancers listed for the evening include Alla Artyushkina, Victor Barykin, Alexander Bogatyrev, Boris Yefimov, Alexei Lazarev, Leonid Nikonov and Inna Petrova.

Not yet announced, the selections on the program will be reportedly dominated by excerpts from such 19th-Century staples of the Bolshoi repertory as “Swan Lake,” “Don Quixote” and “The Sleeping Beauty.”

The Los Angeles performance comes at the end of a short tour that follows the appearance of Plisetskaya and her Bolshoi colleagues at an American-Soviet festival in Boston, “Making Music Together.”