How Shostakovich's The Bolt changed ballet history
Stalin's brutal state clampdown on anything out of step with the regime changed the course of many lives, including some of the most important figures in ballet' The Bolt: Shostakovich's banned ballet " in picturesIn Soviet Russia in 1930, the cultural energies of the revolution " the jazz, the constructivist art, the Meyerhold experiments in theatre " were still alive and bubbling. But Stalin was already turning rev…