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After winning a war, Chaereas — the battle scene between him and Dionysius, set to Khachaturian’s invigorating “Sabre Dance,” is a thriller of sound and choreographic texture — finds his way back to her.

‘New Horizons’ Westside Ballet of Santa Monica’s annual spring concert features company members, student dancers and guest artists sharing the stage for a program set to music by Barber, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Strauss II, et al.

Speaking from Kansas City, Mo., they talked about their program of cello sonatas by Frank Bridge, Britten, Shostakovich and either Khachaturian or Beethoven, depending on the stop.

On April 2, the Bolshoi performed Aram Khachaturian’s “Spartacus,” a 1956 ballet about “the liberation of the oppressed,” Mr. Morrison said, meant to chime with “the ideological principles of the Soviet Union.”

In the men’s division, Vinnie Marturano of Big Pine Key tooted his way to victory by playing a portion of Aram Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance.”