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.

The first tour of the Leonid Yacobson Ballet to the historical Bolshoi Theatre since the 2022 hiatus began in the Russian capital on 28 July. We have 9 showings planned overall, including those of classical Russian masterpieces: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and Don Quixote. For opening our tour, however, we performed ballets by our Theatre’s founder, Leonid Yacobson.

Igor Bulytsyn’s Bruch. Suite has officially opened its run at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. In his production, the Ekaterinburg-born young choreographer, who has already won a Golden Mask Award, blends together expressive music, profound emotion, and folkloric inspiration. The public will see more of this show in the upcoming season.