Ismene Brown

Poetry in motion | 4 August 2016

That said, the dancing in Swan Lake was pure poetry, invoking an intimacy of storytelling deflatingly absent from their Don Q

  • Comments

  • Don Quixote

    Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House

  • Swan Lake

    Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House, in rep until 10 August

For almost 60 years, whatever the political weather, Russia and Britain have maintained mutually assured respect as far as ballet is concerned. In October 1956, the Soviet Union finally allowed its Bolshoi troupe to appear in the west, in London, a state cultural exchange that should have entailed the debut of the comparatively green Sadler’s Wells Ballet in Russia within weeks.

Already a subscriber? Log in

Keep reading with a free trial

Subscribe and get your first month of online and app access for free. After that it’s just £1 a week.

There’s no commitment, you can cancel any time.

Or

Unlock more articles

REGISTER

Read next

Trending

Niall Gooch

In defence of a ‘British culture’

From time to time, a would-be edgy Tweeter or columnist will shock us all by stating or suggesting that the boring white people who until the last third of the twentieth century made up almost the entire population of the United Kingdom, have no real culture to speak of. There is a twofold implication to

Because you read about ballet

Also by Ismene Brown

Latest

Comments

Don't miss out

Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. Subscribe to leave a comment.

Already a subscriber? Log in