Russian Ballet Masterpieces

Performers

Conductor:

Pas de Quatre
Performed by: Elena Chernova, Valerie Gomez de Cadiz, Anna Skvortsova, Svetlana Svinko

Pas De Deux
Performed by: Sofia Matiushenskaya, Andrei Sorokin

The Wedding Cortege
Performed by: Olga Mikhailova, Evgeny Vladykin, Rail Khunafin, Angelina Grigorieva, Sergey Davydov, Svetlana Golovkina, Vadim Smorodin, Stepan Korolev, Ksenia Andreenko, Tasman Davids, Yaroslav Timofeev, Marseille Kazykhanov

The Lovers
Performed by: Darya Belova, Marseille Kazykhanov

Sextet
Performed by: Olga Mikhailova, Yana Chernoritskaya, Nuria Kartamysova, Aydar Bikbulatov, Hasan Allahverdiyev, Alexander Mikhirev

The Village Don Juan
Performed by: Irina Silantieva, Alexander Blend

Vestris
Performed by: Sergey Krylov

The Gossips
Performed by: Angelina Grigorieva, Darya Belova, Svetlana Svinko, Anna Sergeeva, Ksenia Andreeenko

Baba Yaga
Performed by: Andrey Gudyma

Viennese Waltz
Performed by: Alla Bocharova, Denis Klimuk

Credits

Artistic Director of the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre - Andrian Fadeyev
Choreography by Leonid Yacobson
Set design by Alyona Pikalova and Tatiana Vyushinskaya
Costumes by Tatiana Noginova
Lighting by Kamil Kutyev

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Russian Ballet Masterpieces to the 50^th anniversary of its forerunner, the famous Choreographic Miniatures company, which its founder, the legendary choreographer Leonid Yakobson, stepped up to run half a century ago.

Yacobson’s creative heritage is diverse and priceless, but his Choreographic Miniatures performance (1958) became a truly life-changing work. It was the Miniatures that gave the name to the first theatre where Yacobson could freely realize his ideas, in many respects defining the genre of the future vast repertoire, which the maitre de ballet «composed» within an unprecedentedly short time. Carefully restored not so long ago, these works still form the core of the theatre’s playbill.

Moving ahead of his time, Yacobson dreamed of a new plastic language: «A revolution must take place in choreography. The entire universal movement development system leading to the profession of a ballet dancer should remain from the classical dance school. But the style in which this system is enclosed must be rejected. Then a new art will be born.»

The revived show premiered on: November 30, 2018

Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes
The performance has one interval

Age category 6+