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Anna Karenina, Happiness, and Dance Career Satisfaction

February 18, 2019 by 4dancers

Anna Karenina. Victoria Jaiani, Alberto Velazquez, and Joffrey ensemble. Photo by Cheryl Mann.

by Luis Eduardo Gonzalez

Anna Karenina premiered this past Wednesday at the Auditorium Theatre. The story was originally written by Leo Tolstoy in 1878, and been adapted into various media including opera, film, television, ballet, figure skating and radio drama. Yuri Possokhov took on the task of doing it for himself and as far as I’m concerned excelled. There is always more excitement as well as stress with a world premiere rather than something that has already been choreographed. There are so many aspects to work out in terms of production and seeing what does and doesn’t work on the stage, but what I have found most interesting is the way that Yuri has been able to simplify one of the most nuanced and complicated novels to fit a ballet setting without losing the essence of the story or the message that I think was originally intended by Tolstoy. The clarity that comes with having to simplify a story as nuanced as Tolstoy’s for the sake of something that works on screen or on a stage is that it makes it easier to draw the parallels and, in a way, draw a more profound correlation between the message of the story and life. The beauty of a masterpiece like Anna Karenina is that someone like Tolstoy spent most of his life writing this to articulate his thoughts and social commentary on the world around him. Having read the book, and seen a few of the movies I think specifically for us as dancers there may be more to learn from this story than initially meets the eye.

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Filed Under: 4dancers Tagged With: Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina Ballet, dance magazine, joffrey ballet, Luis Edwardo Gonzalez, Mark Manson, Mental Health in Dancers, the joffrey, Tolstoy, yuri possokhov

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