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The Kirov

By Robert Gottlieb 4/22/08 5:26pm

The Kirov’s Modern Kick

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn’t always know what to do with them. The dancers—here for a three-week season, just ended, at the City Center—were under a handicap: The stage is so much smaller than their own, in St. Petersburg, that the company’s classical Read More

By Robert Gottlieb 4/08/08 3:53pm

The Kirov’s Old-World Virtues and Perversities

The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was Swan Lake. The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning. As I remember it, our secretary Read More


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