The Brothers Karamazov, Eifman Ballet
The Brothers Karamazov novel is the epitome of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s creative work, the acme
of the philosophic investigation carried out by this colossal and restless mind throughout his life.
World renowned choreographer Boris Eifman offers a remarkable vision of the core ideas within
the novel, expanding upon them though body language as a way of exploring the origins of the
moral devastation of the Karamazovs; creating through choreographic art an equivalent of what
Dostoyevsky investigated so masterfully in his book, the excruciating burden of destructive
passions and evil heredity.