Scotch Symphony/ In the Night/ Ballet Imperial, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House | reviews, news & interviews
Scotch Symphony/ In the Night/ Ballet Imperial, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House
Scotch Symphony/ In the Night/ Ballet Imperial, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House
Maybe it takes US choreography to uncover the greatest Russian ballerinas
Great Mariinsky ballerinas are a breed apart, even from Bolshoi women. They take the stage with a consciousness of entitlement that’s thrilling to watch, and when this almost sacred sense of mystique and grace instilled in St Petersburg comes with vivid expressive distinction too, then there really is nothing like it. Even if three American 20th-century ballets might not be thought the likeliest territory to make such discoveries, what a night for ballerinas last night was. Viktoria Terëshkina and Alina Somova are on their way to joining the peerless Uliana Lopatkina at the high table.
Great Mariinsky ballerinas are a breed apart, even from Bolshoi women. They take the stage with a consciousness of entitlement that’s thrilling to watch, and when this almost sacred sense of mystique and grace instilled in St Petersburg comes with vivid expressive distinction too, then there really is nothing like it. Even if three American 20th-century ballets might not be thought the likeliest territory to make such discoveries, what a night for ballerinas last night was. Viktoria Terëshkina and Alina Somova are on their way to joining the peerless Uliana Lopatkina at the high table.
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