Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre plans to take part in an international art festival titled Shostakovich. Beyond Time, which the city of Samara will be hosting in late September.

The nominees for Golden Soffit, St. Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre award, have been revealed today. Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre is present in as many as three categories.

From 13 July to 20 August, St. Petersburg will host the second iteration of the new annual ballet festival, Gold Collection, organised by the Leonid Yacobson Academic Ballet Theatre. The troupe will present the best ballet classics, as well as impressive works of modern choreography, at several venues: Mariinsky, Alexandrinsky, and Bolshoi Drama Theatre.

On 13 July, the St. Petersburg public will get a chance to see not one, but two premières: this season’s additions to the repertoire of the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre. The historical venue of Alexandrinsky Theatre will host a showing of Brilliant Divertissement, a collection of choreographic miniatures by the troupe’s founder; and Cheeky Chastushki, a one-act ballet staged by Vyacheslav Samodurov — all in one night!