Exclusive Interview: Did this Bolshoi Ballerina Inspire an Acid Attack? Moscow's ballet company was once the pride of the Soviet Union. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for TIME. With Maria Allash, Andrei Budberg, Anastasiya Meskova, Roman Adamov. Bolshoi acid attack: Dancer found guilty. Bolshoi Ballet Acid Attack Rumors Swirl, Company Dancers Suspected (PHOTOS) By Katherine Brooks The Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin speaks to journalists as he leaves a hospital accompanied by his wife Maria (L) in Moscow, on February 4, 2013. After the Acid Attack, Is the Bolshoi Doomed? Read Later. The case has exposed rivalries and tensions at the world-renowned ballet company (CNN) — Bolshoi Acid Attack: Dancer 'Just A Pawn' The head of the Bolshoi ballet claims a star dancer charged with plotting an acid attack on its artistic director is a "puppet". A masked attacker threw acid in the face of the artistic director of Russia's prestigious Bolshoi Ballet, endangering his eyesight, in what colleagues said on Friday was the culmination of … The Bolshoi Theater's artistic director Sergey Filin was attacked by a masked assailant in Moscow who splashed acid onto his face. On the day of the acid attack, Mr. Filin had met with the Bolshoi’s general director, Anatoly Iksanov, and confided that he was beginning to worry about his children’s safety. Send to Kindle. A leading Bolshoi Ballet soloist and two other detained suspects have confessed to their involvement in the acid attack on the artistic director of world … Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi Ballet artistic director whose sight was maimed two years ago by an acid attack organized by a disgruntled dancer, will lose his job when his contract expires next spring. The Bolshoi Ballet dancer accused of masterminding an attack on the theatre's artistic director, Sergei Filin, has said that he did not mean for him to be splashed with acid. The acid attack almost blinded the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director, Sergei Filin. Bolshoi Acid Attack: Ballet dancer pleads not guilty in attack on company director Sergei Filin. Bolshoi Acid Attack: Star's Home Searched. Police arrest three over an attack on Bolshoi artistic director Sergei Filin as officers search the home of a star of the ballet. Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko convicted by Russian judge over acid attack that nearly blinded ballet company's artistic director, Sergei Filin He is currently the Director of the Young Artists Ballet Program at the Bolshoi Theatre. ... World Bolshoi chief fights for eyesight after acid attack AFP Published: 8:40pm, 18 Jan, 2013. Bolshoi acid attack: Pavel Dmitrichenko confesses to assault on Sergei Filin. The Bolshoi ballet star Pavel Dmitrichenko claimed from inside a metal cage in a Moscow court that the acid attack on the company's artistic director was “a mistake”. MOSCOW - An acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet has shone the spotlight on the fierce "Black Swan" -like competition for starring roles at the famed Russian dance company. In January 2013, a sulfuric acid attack on art director Sergei Filin once again steeped the company in scandal. Bolshoi chief fights for eyesight after acid attack . Bolshoi ballet chief hit by acid attack Posted 18 Jan January 2013 Fri Friday 18 Jan January 2013 at 12:01pm , updated 21 Jan January 2013 Mon Monday 21 Jan January 2013 at 1:19am Share By Simon Shuster / Moscow March 06, 2013. Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, was convicted of organizing the attack and sentenced to six years in prison. Bolshoi Director Makes First U.S. Visit Since Acid Attack Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin is in the U.S. for the first time since he was injured last year. Reasons for the attack include corruption within the company. MOSCOW (AP) — An acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet has shone the spotlight on the fierce "Black Swan" -like competition for starring roles at the famed Russian dance company. By Crimesider Staff October 30, 2013 / 11:43 AM / CBS News A behind-the-scenes look at Moscow's prestigious Bolshoi Theatre as it's rocked by an acid-attack scandal in 2013. Share. MOSCOW - How much wider will the Bolshoi ballet acid attack scandal go?. Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has been arrested on suspicion of organizing the attack, told a Moscow court that he gave his blessing for the Jan. 17 attack but never expected the perpetrator to use acid and cause such harm to Filin. Doctors are fighting to save the sight of the artistic director of Russia's illustrious Bolshoi Ballet after an acid attack on a Moscow street. Sergei Yurevitch Filin (Russian: Серге́й Ю́рьевич Фи́лин; born 27 October 1970) is a Russian ballet dancer and the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater from 2011 through 2016. MOSCOW -- A Bolshoi star dancer was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday over an acid attack on the ballet's director that exposed vicious backstage bickering and intrigue at … Directed by Nick Read, Mark Franchetti. By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was found guilty on Tuesday in an acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet and tarnished the reputation of the renowned theatre. But amid chronic mismanagement and waning political status, it faces a bleak future. A Moscow judge said Dmitrichenko and two co … Moscow (AFP) - A ballet dancer who masterminded an acid attack on the Bolshoi's artistic director has been released on parole after demonstrating "exemplary behaviour" in prison, a court said on Wednesday. Updated: 9:35pm, 18 Jan, 2013. Bolshoi Babylon: The Acid Attack Recounting the famous Russian ballet company's darkest hour Captured shortly after a horrific attack against the company's then artistic director Sergei Filin, filmmakers Nick Read and Mark Franchetti’s new documentary goes behind the scenes at the Bolshoi …