Coliseum, LondonRoland Petit, who died just over a week ago, was fabled as the man who brought sex, style and bohemian-chic to the post-war ballet stage. But he should also be commemorated as the choreographer who elevated smoking to a terpsichorean art. The languid sensuality with which Petit's characters blow smoke into each others eyes: the venom with which they grind a half-finished fag onto the floor, is often a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PM on July 22, 2011