Ivan Vasiliev in a nutshell — NY Times critics Alistair Macaulay sums up the Russian ballet star

“The Bolshoi Bal­let star Ivan Vasiliev, still in his early 20s, is just what you want a Rus­sian male dan­cer to be: power­ful, ardent, enga­ging and a bit on the wild side. Even without matinée-idol looks, he has loads of phys­ical charm. His smile is happy, his dark brown hair is none too tidy, there’s a mis­chiev­ous glint in his eyes, and he’s virile without hav­ing com­pletely shaken off his boy­ish­ness. Vast though the stage of the Met­ro­pol­itan Opera House is, he makes it look much too small for com­fort when he tears around it. His jumps are out of all pro­por­tion to his medium height.” NYTimes.com

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