The Boy From Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet

The Boy from Kyiv is the life story of Alexei Ratmansky, the most celebrated ballet choreographer of our time.



Before Ratmansky was the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, the resident choreographer at American Ballet Theatre, the artist in residence at New York City Ballet, and generally, as The New Yorker has it, "the most sought-after man in ballet," he was just a boy from Kyiv, sneaking into the ballet at night, concocting his own juvenile adaptations of novels and stories, and drea...