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Day: June 2, 2019

UNIQUE TROUPE’S FEARLESS ‘ACROBALLET’

UNIQUE TROUPE’S FEARLESS ‘ACROBALLET’

BERKELEY—Is this a ballet company on speed? Or, much more likely, a dance troupe in a new genre best called Acroballet. Whatever the name, the Eifman Ballet from St. Petersburg Russia is a unique fireball of frenzy, playing out Boris Eifman’s “The Pygmalion Effect” dance drama in a three-day run here. Half of the 80-member cast traveled with this full staged work, dazzling the audience with faster-than-the-eye moves. I hope they brought their own chiropractor, as my neck is sore…

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