Bolshoi, under the exacting eye of Makhar Vaziev

Moscow

SOON after becoming the ballet director at the Bolshoi Theatre, Makhar Vaziev installed a large flat-screen television next to his desk that allows him to monitor the rehearsal rooms and the two main stages - the screen divided into nine squares.

On a recent afternoon, as the company prepared to leave for a 10-day run at Lincoln Center that begins on Thursday, he watched as Elvina Ibraimova rehearsed onscreen, then called the studio to tweak a variation.

"The pas de bourrée should be faster; the turn, less but more active," he said, as she adjusted. "The left hand in that direction, the right…