Scandal rocked the Bolshoi this year when its artistic director had acid thrown in his face. Nikolai Tsiskaridze, the troupe's recently sacked principal dancer, tells Judith Mackrell why he thinks his injuries have been exaggerated'Please don't make this story personal." That's the last thing Nikolai Tsiskaridze says to me as he's whisked away to catch a flight back home. The Tbilisi-born dancer, notorious for his f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM on December 18, 2016