St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater of Leonid Yakobson will be on tour in Minsk on 25 to 27 January of Belarus. The St. Petersburg theater will present three ballets on stage of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus: the cycle of choreographic miniatures “Roden” and one-act ballet “Bug” to the music by Dmitry Shostakovich. The following days will be given to classics of choreographic art. Artists from St. Petersburg will present the greatest romantic ballet of all time – Swan Lake by Piotr Tchaikovsky. The St. Petersburg theater hopes that the Minsk tour will be the beginning of the long cooperation with the Belarusian Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater and the balletomanes in Belarus will be able to see more productions of the great choreographer Leonid Yakobson.
The unique auteur ballet theater was founded 42 years ago. It was named after Leonid Yakobson, an outstanding choreographer of the 20th century, and became the first ballet theater of Russia that exists separate from the opera company.