Royal Opera House, LondonWhat Yuri Grigorovich's Soviet-era ballet lacks in subtlety it makes up for in sheer virtuosity and spectacle Liberation! Courage! Indomitable will! Sacrifice for the greater good! In 1968, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends, and was still holding its own in the space race with the United States. In that same year, Yuri Grigorovich, the director of the M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM on August 4, 2019