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Having created over 40 ballets, Boris Eifman is one of the few Russian choreographers to have sustained such a prolific creative life in recent decades. His ballet, “Tchaikovsky” (as well as the leading cast members of “Tchaikovsky” and “The Karamazovs”)has received the prestigious Russian “Golden Mask” award, and the choreographer himself has received the Golden Mask award for his lifetime achievement in contemporary choreography. Mr. Eifman is also a four-time recipient of the St. Petersburg theater award, “The Golden Sofit.” His other awards and distinctions include the “Triumph” award; the Russian state award for his contribution to the development of the performing arts; induction into France’s Order of Arts and Letters; the distinguished title of “The People’s Artist of Russia;” and a professorship at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

Eifman has a marvellous company of dancers to work with. They dance the pure Russian style, whose Eifman-evolved contemporary inflection seems utterly natural to them. The principal dancers are stunningly good:Vera Arbuzova, Yuri Ananyan and Albert Galichanin would grace any stage in any capital of the world. Arbuzova seems to have been designed by a team of dance deities specifically for existence as a ballerina;effortless and graceful in a long, taxing part, there is never a moment when she does not hold the audience's attention absolutely.

Story of Red Giselle

Red Giselle is the dance-told story of the ballerina Olga Spessivtseva(1895 - 1991). It is a moving tale of an artist whose genius at onetime made people say that she performed Giselle even better than did Pavlova. After a glittering career, paralleled by a private life filled with much emotional wretchedness, she became exiled to the United States by the threat and then the actuality of war in the late 1930s. In 1940she had a mental breakdown, and languished for many decades in anasylum, where no-one knew of her past...

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg was created by Russian choreographer Boris Eifman, who received the Golden Mask award for his lifetime achievement in contemporary choreography. Eifman's ballet retells Red Giselle, the story of the ballerina Olga Spessivtseva, whose genius at one time made people say that she performed Giselle even better than did Pavlova. RMB100-1,000.