This insightful concept establishes a 21st century sensibility while retaining the soul of Tolstoy’s novel.
AFTER several Covid-enforced interruptions, and a short season in Adelaide in July 2021, Yuri Possokhov’s Anna Karenina finally opened in Melbourne to a packed house. The dancers rose magnificently to the occasion and delivered a performance of the highest quality, thoroughly earning the ecstatic cheers and bravos of the Covid-masked opening night audience.
Possokhov’s insightful concept, vision and choreography establish an is a jointly commissioned production by the Joffrey Ballet and the Australian Ballet and premièred in Chicago in 2019.
