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St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet Anna Karenina

Date: Sept 13-14 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 160-880 yuan

Boris Eifman's ballet Anna Karenina is a true burst of inner psychological energy and is amazingly precise in delivering emotional impact upon its viewers. By setting aside all secondary storylines in Leo Tolstoy's novel, the choreographer focused on the love triangle among Anna, Karenin and Vronsky. The choreographer said that his ballet speaks not of previous times but of today. The timeless emotional content of the performance and obvious parallels to reality can't leave the contemporary viewers indifferent. The brilliant technical mastery of the company's dancers and Boris Eifman's astounding choreography is presented to us in a remarkably impressive way in all the aspects and peripeteias of the Tolstoy's novel.