“The Bright Stream,” Alexei Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash production bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in cinemas throughout the U.S. and Canada in November. Come for a night of subversive dance streaming at Orcas Center Friday, Nov. 18, 6:30 p.m. “The Bright Stream” is the second title in the seventh season of Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema featuring seven productions, four exhibited on the same day as the live capture from Moscow, and three encore presentations.

Alexei Ratmansky, one of ballet’s most significant contemporary choreographers and former artisticdirector of the Bolshoi Ballet, revived the once-censored Shostakovich ballet score and production of “The Bright Stream” for the Bolshoi in 2003. The original work by Fyodor Lopukhov was staged in 1935, and although praised by the public and critics, the ballet was banned shortly after its premiere without any saved notation of the original choreography. Ratmansky first came across the full score in a recording by Gennady Rozhdestvensky in 1995, and decided to stage the full length ballet for the Bolshoi, which led to his appointment as artistic director.

The story follows a visiting dance troupe that arrives at a collective farm to celebrate the harvest festival, reuniting a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach Zina’s unfaithful husband a lesson, the ballerina, her husband and Zina decide to swap roles for the evening.

Tickets are $20, $15 for students, $2 off for Orcas Center members and may be purchased at www.orcascenter.org or by calling 376-2281 ext. 1 or visiting the Orcas Center Box Office. There are $5 subsidized tickets available at the box office.