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2,000 years ago a group of slaves broke free and took up arms against their masters. They shook the system to the core and though they were in the end crushed - set the story for all time. So tragic that today, slaves don't even know that they are indeed slaves.

Here is the pivotal scene from the ballet Spartacus. It is the evening before the last battle and Phrygia and Spartacus say good bye to each other and to the brief moment of freedom that they will have.

This for me is one of the pivotal experiences of ballet where the giant energy of the combination of the male and the female explodes upon the stage.

Katchachuryan's music takes us to a depth of feeling that is almost unbearable. The dancers from the Bolshoi offer us the essence of the great unity that I think can only be found by a couple who find themselves at the limit of what can be felt by two people.

I weep for my country and for a world where we know none of these truths