According to Kommersant newspaper, Polina Semionova’s performance in La Bayadère displays “the astute mastery of character development as well as reciprocation of her stage partners’ emotional cues, a skill hard to come by in modern theatre”. Polina Semionova, Leonid Sarafanov, and Marat Shemiunov have forged a magnificent trio.

The starry Russian company gets to grips with Frederick Ashton.