"This performance speaks of two people, two personalities, who truly loved one another," dancer Vlad Lantratov explains in the video below, "who lose each other, knowing that life goes on, everything goes on."

Lantratov is describing the epic three-hour ballet "The Lady of the Camellias," which illustrates the tragic romance between young lovers Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval, a courtesan and a bourgeois, whose love defies the norms upheld by the world around them. "The ballet is the relationship between two people, the only way they can be, "Lantratov continues.

"This performance speaks of two people, two personalities, who truly loved one another," dancer Vlad Lantratov explains in the video above, "who lose each other, knowing that life goes on, everything goes on."

Lantratov is describing the epic three-hour ballet "The Lady of the Camellias," which illustrates the tragic romance between young lovers Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval, a courtesan and a bourgeois, whose love defies the norms upheld by the world around them. "The ballet is the relationship between two people, the only way they can be, "Lantratov continues.

A contemporary rendition of "The Lady of the Camellias," choreographed by John Neumeier and starring the members of Moscow's iconic Bolshoi Ballet will premiere throughout U.S. cinemas on Dec. 6.

The piece, originally choreographed in 1978 for the Stuttgart Ballet, is based off Alexandre Dumas' novel of the same name. Both novel and ballet tell the tale of Marguerite, a young courtesan suffering from tuberculosis who falls in love with upper-class Armand, who in turn loves her wholly and completely. The ill and fragile Marguerite is dubbed the Lady of the Camellias because she wears a white camellia when she is available to her lovers, and a red one when her illness prevents her from making love.