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Bolshoi hero Maris Liepa lives on

Jul 27, 2012 12:06
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Maris Liepa transformed the Bolshoi Ballet with his dark and muscular interpretation of the role of Crassus, the Roman tyrant in Spartacus. This week top dancers from the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres will perform a gala concert honouring Liepa at London's Coliseum. Alice Lagnado asked the Guardian’s dance critic Judith Mackrell why Liepa’s legacy lives on.

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