Eifman, among the leading innovator of ballet dancing in Russia, translates the expression of the different Mozartian sensations of suffering, hope and love for humanity into a striking choreographic ...

The Park Theatre will present the high-definition filmed production of Boris Eifman's ballet interpretation of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov on Wednesday, September 18 at 1:30pm. The Brothers ...

For some time, Boris Eifman has foraged for choreographic fodder in Russian literature and history. His Karamazovs, Red Giselle, Anna Karenina, and Russian Hamlet (the latter two on view this week) ...

St. Petersburg's Eifman Ballet returns to Israel for a production of ‘Crime and Punishment’ in Tel Aviv. The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg returns to Israel for its 17th visit this month, presenting ...

Vladimir Nabokov once chided in a brief parenthesis that “Anna Karenina,” the great novel by Tolstoy, “should in fact be transliterated without the closing ‘a’ – she was not a ballerina.” Well, at ...

It is safe to say that no dance company in recent years has made an impact on American audiences to compare with the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg. The subject of the troupe's narratives, as might ...

Boris Eifman (Борис Яковлевич Эйфман; born 22 July 1946) is a Russian choreographer and artistic director. He has done more than fifty ballet productions. Eifman was born in Rubtsovsk, Siberia, where ...

"I FEEL LIKE I've lived two lives," says Russian ballet choreographer and company director Boris Eifman, founder and director of the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg. At 57, this ardently expressive ...

That the great works of art transcend time, place, and history is a lesson to be learned in many ways. Author and professor Azar Nafisi teaches that in her excellent memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.” ...

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I prefer Boris Eifman’s spectacle-ballets when he’s doing a psychological number on the driven heroes and heroines of Russian history and literature. His twisted, angular, percussive style, with its ...