Performer: Anastasia Stashkevich

Fêted collaboration lacks substance despite committed performances, and it's Cherkaoui's Faun that captures the human connection.

If it were a film, I’d say Maillot’s Shrew is more of a trashy Franco-Russian Rom-Com with literary pretensions than an art film.

Performing their prize winning The Taming of the Shrew in the Dance Open Festival at St Petersburg, this is a new-look Bolshoi company indeed!