Performer: Vyacheslav Lopatin

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

Modanse, a double bill designed for the star Bolshoi ballerina, disappoints at the London Coliseum. 

Superstar husband-and-wife team, renowned violinist Vadim Repin and "tsarina of the dance" Svetlana Zakharova, go on a date and take us with them. The music fared much better than the ballet.

While the ballet's libretto is dated, The Golden Age can, when performed by great artists, be both an entertaining and emotionally satisfying ballet.

Ratmansky adds choreographic and aesthetic sense to a ballet that doesn't have much to say.

Alexei Ratmansky's The Flames of Paris shows the Bolshoi Ballet in top form at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.