St. Petersburgh Ballet
St. Petersburg Theater “Russian Ballet” was created in 1990 by the family of professional ballet dancers and the dynasty is more than 100 years old. The Artistic Director of the theater, Alexander Bruskin, is a former soloist of the Kirov ballet, a classmate of Baryshnikov, and a student of the legendary ballet pedagogue Alexander Pushkin, the mentor of Rudolf Nureyev.
The Theater was created as a small ballet of the Mariinsky Theater for the State Hermitage Museum, which opened after the restoration in 1991 of the Imperial Hermitage Theater (built in 1763).
The St.Petersburg Theatre “Russian Ballet” has successfully conducted more than 70 tours worldwide, including Japan, France, Belgium, England, Ireland, Spain, USA, Portugal, The Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Turkey, Estonia, Isle of Malta, Katar (Doha), Syria, Chile, Spain, China, Italy, Norway and many other countries. The theatre has participated in 17 international ballet festivals.
- Theatre “Russian Ballet” is the part of the top three theatres in Russia. The producer is Lyudmila Bragina.
- Today the repertoire of the St. Petersburg Theater "Russian Ballet" includes such classical masterpieces as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Giselle, Chopiniana, Don Quxot and The Gala Concerts of ballet stars.
- The troupe of the theater "Russian Ballet" both corps de ballet and soloists are all graduates of the famed Vaganova Ballet Academy, the oldest ballet school in the world (founded in 1738).
- The Russian Ballet Theater perceives as its main mission the preservation of the authentic choreography of the Kirov (presently Mariinsky) Theater. Each ballet is performed in its original choreography.
- In St. Petersburg for the last 29 years Theater "Russian Ballet" has performed on the stage of one of the best theaters in the world - the Imperial Hermitage Theater of the State Hermitage at 34 Dvortsovaya Embankment. Since 2006, the ballet troupe performs on stage at the Palace Theatre and Anichkov Palace.
- Thousands of ballet admirers from all over the world come to see performances of Theatre “Russian Ballet” on the most beautiful stages of Saint-Petersburg.
