On 23 May, world ballet star Leonid Sarafanov held his first class with the Leonid Yacobson Ballet dancers as an official tutor.

The public may be familiar with Andrey Sorokin, Leonid Yacobson Ballet’s principal dancer, not just because his virtuoso skills truly shine in the shows from the theatre’s repertoire, but also because he appeared in the Grand Ballet project on the Culture Channel and in the Bolshoi feature film by Valery Todorovsky.

Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre is pleased to invite college graduates with tertiary education in ballet to audition for its troupe on 21 May at 4 Dumskaya Street (on the premises of the Bolshoi Gostiny Dvor department store).

The art of ballet demands tremendous skill and hard work not just from dancers, but also from those who teach them. Behind each performer’s success, lie hours and hours of daily toil in ballet classrooms, where the ballet artist hones each pas to perfection under the guidance of their tutor.