circus maximus Mikhailovsky Ballet: Spartacus

The Sunday Telegraph London | July 27, 2008| | Copyright

The rise, fall and mass crucifixion of 6,000 Roman slaves reads more like a Latin prose than a ballet scenario but that didn't stop Spartacus becoming one of the milestones of 20th-century dance. Eastern European choreographers, hungry for suitably anti- imperialist subjects, have repeatedly wrestled with Khachaturian's pile-driving score. The best-known version was created by Yuri Grigorovich for the Bolshoi in 1968. The most recent is by George Kovtun for St Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Ballet: an action-packed toga party filled with bravura stunts.

Farukh Ruzimatov, whose sinuous beauty made ...

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