dirac Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 A review of Birmingham Royal Ballet by Jann Parry for DanceTabs. Quote In between the two ensemble pieces comes a male solo, Liebestod, choreographed by Valery Panov. A former dancer with the Kirov Ballet, he and his wife were jailed by the Soviet authorities in 1972 for wanting an exit visa for Israel. After an international outcry, they were released and he eventually ended up founding the Panov Ballet Theatre in Israel in 1998, the year he created the solo. Set to Richard Wagner’s music for the final moments of Tristan and Isolde, it’s a portentous Soviet-style athletic musing about life and death. Link to comment
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