Mariinsky: so typically ‘Petersburg’, yet so global
It is a shrine of classical ballet as we know it today, and the custodian of a glorious
school, but now also a brand name of global ballet. Concurrently with the regular
season of its two Petersburg theatres, the Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre splits itself in
two and tours the world. Its recent season at London’ s Covent Garden raises the
problem of what the consequences of this policy of the company’s purity myth could be
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