International ballet dancers starred at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg during the 10th annual Dance Open ballet festival.
International ballet dancers starred at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg during the 10th annual Dance Open ballet festival. Photo: Viktoria Tereshkina and Denis Matviyenko, principal dancers of the Mariinsky ballet company, in Don Quixote.
This year’s Dance Open featured three gala performances starring famous dancers. Photo: Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasilyev, principal dancers of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, in Flame of Paris.
The organizers dedicated the first gala night entirely to dancers from Russian provincial companies. Photo: Dancers from the Yekaterinburg State Opera and Ballet Theater in a performance set to Karl Jenkins’s Palladio string concerto.
Moscow and St. Petersburg dancers performed along with their peers from across the country. Photo: Irina Perren and Marat Shemiunov, principal dancers of the Mikhailovsky theater company, in Spartacus.
The organizers said they had no intention of presenting all Russian dance companies, but rather aimed at selecting the best and most vibrant pieces. Photo: Nurlan Kanetov, principal dancer of the Tatarstan State Opera and Ballet Theater, in a piece called Confession set to Mozart’s Requiem.
The Dance Open also included a gala night dedicated to the anniversary of Natalia Makarova, the legendary Russian-born American prima ballerina. Photo: Anna Polikarpova and Ivan Urban, principal dancers of the Hamburg Ballet, in Gustav Mahler’s Adagietto.
Principals from leading international dance companies performed the famous ballerina’s parts at the Alexandrinsky Theater. Photo: Mariinsky prima Diana Vishneva and Marcelo Gomes, a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, in L'histoire de Manon.
Semyon Chudin, principal dancer with Moscow’s Stanislavsky Theater, in pas de deux from Adolphe Adam’s Giselle.
Jurgita Dronina, principal dancer with the Royal Swedish Ballet and Dutch National Ballet, and Dutch National Ballet principal Cedric Ygnace in Sergei Prokofyev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Sue Jin Kang and Jason Reilly, principals with Stuttgart Ballet, in Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Yevgeny Onegin.
Sergei Polunin and Alina Cojocaru, principals with the Royal Ballet in London, in pas de deux from Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty.
Maria Kowroski and Tyler Angle, principals with the New York City Ballet, in George Gershwin’s Who Cares.
