The Leonid Yacobson Company has just concluded its series of master classes for Mariupol’s young ballerinas, held at the Theatre’s Rotunda. The participants were invited to a special festive ceremony, where they received diplomas from Fyodor Boltin, head of the St. Petersburg Committee for Culture, and from Andrian Fadeev, art director of the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre. Initiated by Governor Alexander Beglov and supported by the Committee for Culture, this project is being hosted by the Yacobson Theatre for the second time.

The season will open with Swan Lake, the most popular and universally beloved Russian ballet. It will be performed at the historical venue of the Mariinsky Theatre. Just as for many seasons prior, we will be taking our shows to St. Petersburg’s best venues: the Mariinsky, Alexandrinsky, and Hermitage Theatres, as well as the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre.

10 August marks the completion of the 56th season at the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre. Our creative team is staying true to our threefold path: promoting the heritage of our Theatre’s founder, collaborating with up-and-coming ballet masters, and working on our classical repertoire. We are also quite proud to have received new additions to our priceless collection of honours and awards.

As the curtain closed on our current season, the Leonid Yacobson troupe presented an exciting range of shows at the legendary Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The programme included a whopping nine performances, each drawing immense interest from the public and fully selling out. The refined St. Petersburg style was quite to the exacting taste of the capital’s ballet critics, who praised the polished techniques in Swan Lake and the choreographic nuances of Johan Kobborg’s Don Quixote and Jean-Guillaume Bart’s Sleeping Beauty: two unique readings of the ballet classics performed exclusively by our troupe.