In her solo parsley for garnish, choreographer and dancer Sasha Portyannikova revisits one of the key figures of Russian dance modernism: Petrushka. The word Petrushka means "parsley" in Russian, but it is also the name of a traditional puppet character that became well known in the early 20th century through the ballet Petrushka (1911) by Igor Stravinsky, Michel Fokine, and Alexandre Benois. It was produced … Revisiting Petrushka: SASHA PORTYANNIKOVA on Ballet and the Avant-Garde weiterlesen