Mariinsky Ballet's La Bayadère: stunning and thrilling (review)
Love is tragic and sumptuous in the Mariinsky Ballet's La Bayadère. At the Kennedy Center this week, under director Valery Gergiev and acting ballet director Yuri Fateev, the production " its sets (by Mikhail Shishliannikov) vast, its costumes (by Yevgeny Ponomarev) sensual and splendid " has a remarkable grandeur. The very size of the company […] The post Mariinsky Ballet's La Bayadère: stunning and thrillin…