Royal Opera House, LondonUliana Lopatkina opened the Mariinsky season as an exquisite but emotionally inaccessible Odette. Making her first entrance in Jerome Robbins's In the Night, she's a different being " legs kicking, arms furiously thrashing the air. Dancing one of three couples in Robbins's supercharged portrait of sex and love, Lopatkina suddenly looks wide awake. And so does the rest of the company. While th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM on August 5, 2011