As he takes his celebrated Shostakovich Trilogy to London, the choreographer explains how he was inspired by the Russian composer’s political risks Alexei Ratmansky says he’s been making dances to the ...

“Shostakovich Trilogy,” which had its full-scale première at A.B.T. on Friday night, is an exemplary Alexei Ratmansky ballet. That means, first of all, Russian music—in this case, Shostakovich.

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In 1935, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote music for what seemed to be a happy-go-lucky ballet. But the official Soviet response was to condemn Shostakovich, and to kill one of his creative colleagues. The ...

None of these pieces is a narrative work, but all take inspiration from Shostakovich's life and the pressures of making art in Stalinist Russia. The middle piece of the three, Chamber Symphony, (all ...

Though San Francisco Ballet’s formidably neat style is distinctly American, the opening programme in its season at Sadler’s Wells is also scattered with allusions to the Soviet Union. This is the era ...

A revelatory dance evening merits an encore, and that is what Alexei Ratmansky’s compelling “Shostakovich Trilogy” received Wednesday at the War Memorial Opera House, courtesy of the San Francisco ...

A ballet score by Shostakovich received its world première at the weekend – 74 years after it was written. Ismene Brown reports from Moscow The Moscow winter is long, and the snow falls almost ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. San Francisco Ballet’s two-week residency at Sadler’s Wells began with the UK premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s ...

Shostakovich has been as misunderstood as his great opera was. It’s time to stop viewing both the man and his works through the lens of Stalinism Dmitri Shostakovich probably had a bad feeling already ...