Alexei Ratmansky

Why are today’s choreographers so musically illiterate?

29 November 2025 9:00 am

Most choreographers today have lost interest in using music as anything more than a background wash of colour and mood.…

Daffy charm and diabolo tricks: Bolshoi’s The Bright Stream reviewed

17 August 2019 9:00 am

The Bright Stream is a ballet about a collective farm. Forget everything you know about collectivism — the failed harvests,…

An American in Paris

9 April 2016 9:00 am

Paris Opera Ballet plays hard to get. It doesn’t deign to travel all the way over here, thanks to a…