Perhaps it isn’t surprising that there’s a retro feel to Kyiv City Ballet’s Edinburgh show. The company, which had begun a tour to France just the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, reflects its yearning for home in A Tribute to Peace. It’s a throwback, because they long to go back.
Even so, this collection of sweet-tooth vignettes choreographed by Ivan Kozlov, the company’s director, is dismayingly undemanding. The troupe’s repertoire includes tragic classics (Swan Lake, Giselle), but Kozlov’s aim here, he says in his onstage welcome, is “good stories with happy endings”.
