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Eifman Ballet Saint Petersburg: Up and Down, London Coliseum

06 Dec 16 – 10 Dec 16, Saturday at 2pm and 7.30pm

Athletic ballet and Jazz-age entertainment are in order as Eifman Ballet St. Petersburg arrive in London this December.

By CW Contributor on 27/6/2016

Eifman Ballet, London 2016 at the Coliseum
Eifman Ballet, London 2016 at the Coliseum
Eifman Ballet Saint Petersburg: Up and Down, London Coliseum Eifman Ballet Saint Petersburg: Up and Down, London Coliseum Ruth Mattock
The arrival of the Eifman Ballet tour in December will be the third dose of Russian ballet in London this year - we're particularly looking forward to the Bolshoi taking over Covent Garden this summer - and they couldn’t be more different.


In a narrative work that premiered in January 2015, choreographer Boris Eifman continues a career-long interest in psychological drama, basing Up and Down on Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night.


A psychiatrist at the beginning of a brilliant career treats a beautiful young patient whose troubles stem, it emerges, from her father’s incestuous advances and her mother’s death. Doctor and patient marry.


But the guilt money of the patient’s father lands the couple in a life of luxurious dissipation, and the doctor’s brilliance, and then mind, gradually unravel.


The plot is certainly Fitzgerald’s, but Eifman’s handling is a world away. Calling himself a ‘choreographer-psychoanalyst’, this translates into some asylum caricatures and writhing, emotionally tortured subjects that many critics found unsatisfying.


But it’s necessary to take a Boris Eifman ballet on the choreographer’s own terms, and as a piece of extravagant dance theatre, his works rarely disappoint audiences.


Few disagree that the dancers of Eifman Ballet St. Petersburg are a spectacularly athletic bunch, and set pieces in nightclubs and full flapper attire show off their contagious energy.


The steps are full of right angles and frozen airborne figures in startling shapes.


All plays against a recorded soundtrack of Gershwin, Schubert and Alban Berg, while designs by Zinovy Margolin and Olga Shaishmelashvili set a racy Twenties mood.


So, an education in clear-sighted narrative and subtle characterisation this is not. But Eifman Ballet Up and Down tickets will certainly guarantee you an entertaining night.



What Eifman Ballet Saint Petersburg: Up and Down, London Coliseum
Where London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, , London , WC2N 4ES | MAP
Nearest tube Leicester Square (underground)
When 06 Dec 16 – 10 Dec 16, Saturday at 2pm and 7.30pm
Price £10-85
Website Book via the ENO website



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