Live broadcast of Bolshoi Babylon Q&A to take place across UK

London’s Bertha DocHouse will host their first live broadcast event in honour of the weekend opening of Bolshoi Babylon on Sunday 10 January.

Bertha DocHouse is set to broadcast a Q&A to 100 participating cinemas around the UK, live from the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema in central London.

Event facilitator Kirsty Wark will be joined by filmmakers Nick Read and Mark Franchetti, historian, journalist, presenter and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, as well as former Royal Opera House Creative Director and Royal Ballet dancer Deborah Bull. Bolshoi dancer Anastasia Meskova, who features in the film, will also appear at the event.

Bolshoi Babylon centres on the shocking 2013 acid attack on the Moscow-based Bolshoi ballet company’s artistic director, Sergei Filin, looking into the background to the event and providing behind-the-scenes insight into life for the dancers in arguably the world’s most famous ballet company.

The live post-screening Q&A event will be broadcast from Bertha DocHouse at Curzon Bloomsbury on 10 January.

Full details and a list of participating venues are available on the Bolshoi Babylon website.