Senseless Kindness, English National Ballet

A former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, worldrenowned choreographer Yuri Possokhov creates for a UK company for the first time. His piece for four dancers, Senseless Kindness, is based on Vasily Grossmans great novel, Life and Fate, about a Russian family caught in the Second World War, and is set to Shostakovichs Piano Trio No1, played by musicians of English National Ballet Philharmonic. Using bold lighting and a stark, textured black and white approach, director Thomas Jamess poetic and elegant film reveals the frantic endurance of the human spirit to endure, and to enjoy. Dancers: Francesco Gabriele Frola, Emma Hawes, Isaac Hernández, Alison McWhinney