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12.05.2017
Bolshoi, Valery Todorovsky's long-expected film about the behind-the-scenes routine of Bolshoi Theatre's ballet troupe, which was already enjoying the cult status even before being seen by the public, is finally hitting the screens. One of the roles in the movie was given to Andrey Sorokin, principal dancer of the St. Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre. Read more... |
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04.05.2017
From May 17 to May 20, Banja Luka, the capital of Republika Srpska, will host the Days of St. Petersburg, a special project operated by the NevaArt company. The highlight of the event's diverse programme will, without a doubt, be the grand gala of opera and ballet stars, which will take place on May 17. It is a great joy and honour for the Leonid Yacobson Company, headed by Andrian Fadeev, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation, to present St. Petersburg's ballet to the Serbian public. Read more... |
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04.05.2017
On May 18, members of the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Company, together with other opera and ballet starts, will take part in a gala at the renowned Alexandrinsky Theatre. They will give up the fees for their performance to aid children and adults under the wing the Perspektivy charitable organization. Read more... |
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24.04.2017
The dancers from the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Company are to take part in the Dance Open Gala, which will crown the 16th season of the International Ballet Festival as the grand finale. Read more... |
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17.04.2017
On April 20, three young performers from the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre will make their very first appearance in The Nutcracker, a faerie ballet with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, libretto by Marius Petipa (based on a story by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and edited by Vasili Vainonen), and choreography by Vasili Vainonen. Read more... |
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12.04.2017
World star Johan Kobborg, who has already achieved quite a reputation as a choreographer, is now collaborating with the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre to stage a classical production of Don Quixote, with music by Ludwig Minkus. Read more... |
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29.03.2017
On April 1, the Saint-Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre will perform Adolphe Adam's Giselle (with libretto by Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Theophile Gautier, and Jean Coralli, and choreography by Jules Perrot, Jean Coralli, and Marius Petipa). The show will feature the débuts of the Theatre's principals, Elena Chernova and Stepan Dyomin, alongside with the young dancer Marseille Kazykhanov. Read more... |
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24.03.2017
The Nutcracker show, with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (libretto by Marius Petipa, based on a story by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, edited by Vasili Vainonen), which will be held on March 25 and 26, will feature three débuts of young dancers from the Saint-Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre. Read more... |
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13.03.2017
This spring, the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Company will go on tour to Tallinn, where it will perform this season's premiere, Marius Petipa's classical ballet Sleeping Beauty (with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky), at the Nordea Concert Hall. The production has been staged by the distinguished French choreographer Jean-Guillaume Bart. Read more... |
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09.03.2017
Today, on March 9, at 7.30 p.m. MSK, the Saint-Petersburg Channel will start streaming the unique Russian Ballet Masterpieces programme on its website and social network public pages. The programme will feature Leonid Yacobson's choreographic miniatures, performed by members of the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Company at the Hermitage Theatre. Read more... |