The Cairo Opera Ballet Company will open its new season with the Spartacus ballet to the music of Aram Khachaturian and with choreography by Valentin Yelizariev. The performances will take place on 28 ...

Between 21 and 28 February, the Cairo Opera House Main Hall was given to the ballet Spartacus. Performed by the Cairo Opera Ballet Company to music by Aram Khachaturian and choreography by Valentin ...

Fired up by his recent trip to Italy to visit the Roman ruins, Khachaturian continued work across a series of summers, bringing to musical life a tale based on an episode from ancient ­history: the ...

What Yuri Grigorovich’s Soviet-era ballet lacks in subtlety it makes up for in sheer virtuosity and spectacle Liberation! Courage! Indomitable will! Sacrifice for the greater good! In 1968, the Soviet ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Spartacus is getting an African makeover. In the 1960 movie “Spartacus,” Kirk Douglas played the gladiator who led a slave revolt against the Romans. A ballet version with music by ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Spartacus wears its Soviet-era convictions on its sleeve. Grigorovich’s ballet ...

The Kiwi dancing the part of Spartacus in a ballet at the Sydney Opera House says he uses Māori culture to bring out the masculine side of the famous role. Jake Mangakahia has been impressing ...

When the Australian Ballet’s Spartacus toured America in 1990, it nearly brought New York to a standstill. Crowds in Times Square stopped to gawp at the giant poster of leather-clad dancer Steven ...

For this is the Bolshoi Ballet on energised top form, with a hungry central performance symbolising all that's best about its Spartacus. You wonder at first whether the still-ubiquitous Simon ...

Mark has been watching live dance since he was four years old and reviewing it for 20. To him, it is the ultimate art form - a perfect fusion of music, movement, and drama. A life in the theatre was ...