Eifman Ballet's ballet tour will bring Ballet Anna Karenina (a ballet adapted from the novel by Lev Tolstoy) by Boris Eifman to many major theaters around the world and will visit Vietnam for the first time in November 2025.
According to information from the organizing committee, the performances in this tour are the complete and only performance in Vietnam.
The representative of the organizing committee affirmed that the Eifman Ballet World-tour program in Ho Chi Minh City is not only a special cultural event but also a vivid testament to the cultural exchange between Vietnam and Russia. This event is not only an opportunity for the audience to enjoy world-class performing arts but also an opportunity for Vietnamese artists to be inspired, access modern performing techniques and creativity of the world's art troupe.
In Ho Chi Minh City, the Eifman Ballet World-tour performance will be held at the City Theater on November 27, 28 and 29. The audience enjoyed a special edition with select excerpts from the play Anna Karenina. After that, the Eifman Ballet troupe will perform at the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Cultural Palace, Hanoi on December 4 and 5. Here, the play Anna Karenina will be presented in full. The organizers expect the program to create a cultural bridge, creating international artistic experiences for domestic audiences.
Boris Eifman's "Anna Karenina" is considered an inner-city psychological energy bomb - a symphony in body, capable of touching the emotions of the audience to the end. Unlike the multi-class novel by Lev Tolstoy, Eifman chose to cut the sub-triples to focus completely on the love triangle: Anna - Karenin - Vronsky.
Using body language, Eifman realistically depicts the tragedy of a woman in the process of "rebirth" emotions. According to him, it was the desire to love - the primitive instinct - that caused Anna to break all the social ethical standards of the times, give up maternal love, and gradually lose herself. Submerged in love, Anna accepts everything, even in exchange for isolation, fame and finally life.
Eifman Ballet St. Petersburg was founded by the talented choreographer Boris Eifman in 1977, originally named Leningrad New Ballet.
The first works such as Two-Voice and Boomerang immediately created a strong resonance, arousing excitement from the audience and causing heated debate among critics.
From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the troupe began to shape an independent style, bringing classic literary masterpieces to the stage: The Idiot, The Master and Margarita, The Legend, The Mad Day, The Duel...
To date, Eifman Ballet has performed at leading theaters in Europe, Asia, the US and Australia with a series of prestigious works worldwide.
