He has staged similar demonstrations several times before.
He has staged a referendum and annexation, in defiance of Ukrainian law.
He has staged a number of hunger strikes in protest at his 15-year jail sentence.
He has staged pieces with 30 to 60 dancers at places like the Kennedy Center in Washington and Golden Belt, a former textile mill in Durham, N.C.
He has staged dance-theatre pieces in an abandoned tobacco-processing plant in North Carolina, in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, and even at the Metropolitan Opera.
He has staged this production with an ingratiating, crowd-courting sweetness – a trait that was evident in, but only a part of, his barnstorming performance in "La Cage".
He has staged shows in the Palais Royal, under rococo ceilings, in the open air, and once turned a banquet table into a runway.
He has staged concerts at the Acropolis, the Forbidden City and the Taj Mahal, and these ancient sites of grandeur suggest that his compositions are timeless.
