Cheeky Chastushki are now officially the best ballet of the 2022/23 season. The Golden Soffit award ceremony took place at the Youth Theatre on 13 November. The expert judges on the panel of St. Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre award decided to grant the Best Ballet title to two productions: Cheeky Chastushki will be sharing this honour with Mariinsky Theatre’s The Twelve.

The Leonid Yacobson team is delighted to congratulate our principal Andrey Sorokin, winner of multiple international competitions, on his latest accomplishment: Andrey has just been awarded the title of Honoured Artist of Russia.

On 3, 4, and 5 December, Leonid Yacobson Ballet will take to the stage at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre with a première of The Nutcracker. The show, which will take place at the Tovstonogov Theatre’s main venue, is a brand-new choreographic interpretation by Nikolay Tsiskaridze, People’s Artist of Russia.

This Golden Mask award season, Cheeky Chastushki, a ballet staged by Vyacheslav Samodurov for Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre in December 2022 to celebrate the 90th birthday of composer Rodion Shchedrin, has been short-listed for five nominations.