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But in 1988, at 49, Ms. Seymour surprised everyone by returning to dance with the English National Ballet, giving an intense and detailed performance of Tatyana in John Cranko’s three-act “Onegin.”

Rogers also named Jiří Kylián’s “Gods and Dogs” and “Tar and Feathers,” and John Cranko’s “Onegin” — and is eager for his debut in “Giselle” later this season.

It’s a simple idea but a powerful one to see represented in a ballet, which, in the frequently seen versions by Kenneth MacMillan, John Cranko or Rudolf Nureyev, is a lodestar for heterosexual passion.

That night, the Finnish ballerina Salla Eerola, 44, gave her last, quietly searing performance with the princely Michal Krcmar, in a pas de deux from John Cranko’s “Onegin.”

At the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, one of your teachers was Peter Pestov, who trained many male dancers at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.