Sergei Filin
In the 18th century, French balletmaster Jean-Georges Noverre argued that for ballet to move forward it had to move away from “light and entertaining interludes” toward “dark and serious ballets about incest, murder, and betrayal.” The Russians,...
On January 18, an anonymous man splashed acid in the face of Sergei Filin, the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet troupe. Filin was hospitalized to the burn unit of City hospital No. 36. As the press office of Department of Public Health Service...
