Boris Eifman is a culture hero—a Jew and a renegade who, 25 years ago, founded in St. Petersburg an independent dance company, undaunted by Soviet efforts at censorship and control. Eifman is also a showman. In their own contemporary, balletic, often tortured way, his works have something in common with 19th-century spectacle-extravaganzas, in which wizardry with fabric and lights and girls in plumage descending from above thrilled... More >>>