RODIN London Coliseum

The Russian choreographer Boris Eifman’s psychological two-act ballet is about the life and work of the great French sculptor and his disciple, mistress and muse, Camille Claude, a sculptress in her own right, who was never given the recognition and commissions she deserved. Camille went mad and spent the last 30 years of her life in a mental clinic. Eifman is at his best, however, when he is showing Rodin at work and we are able to watch marble and stone being turned into living sculpture; and strikingly so in the creation of “The Burghers of Calais” and “The Gates of Hell”.