Sarah Kaufman calls her “ballet’s Wonder Woman”: the gutsy Swanilda, as danced by the Bolshoi’s radiant Nina Kaptsova, who isn’t above breaking and entering to win back her fiancé. Catch Kaptsova and the rest of the Russian invasion in the Bolshoi’s sparkling new ‘Coppelia’ at the Kennedy Center through Sunday afternoon. If your loyalties keep you in Maryland, cheering on the underdog U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team as they bravely take on Brazil, then content yourself with this YouTube clip of Kaptsova’s brilliant pointework in The Flames of Paris pas de deux, with the flamboyant Ivan Vasiliev.
