St. Petersburg Festival Ballet combines best traditions and spirit of St. Petersburg ballet. Elegance, grace, delightful lightness is what makes the St. Petersburg ballet different.

St. Petersburg Festival Ballet is based on a some leading ballet artists from St. Petersburg and the ballet troupe of the Ufa State Ballet Theater. Relationship between Ufa and St. Petersburg is more than symbolic ... Ufa is the continuator of St. Petersburg Ballet traditions and one of Russia's best ballet Theaters.

Ufa is inextricably linked with Rudolf Nureyev, the one of the brilliant dancer of the XX century. It is in Ufa, at this stage, he took his first steps on the road to the Kirov Theater in St. Petersburg, and then to world fame. Ballet is also linked with the name of another genius of the Master - by Yuri Grigorovich. He collaborates with the company since 1993. Performances of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker is staged by Yuri Grigorovich. The set design from the legendary theatrical artist Simon Virsaladze, author of the costumes and scenery the best productions of the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi.

Sleeping Beauty is one of the most popular ballets and belongs to the international standard repertoire of the classical ballet. Tchaikovsky himself held it for his best ballet.

The Russian expression says: "Better to see once than hear a hundred times". Sometimes it is simply better himself be present at this wonderful shows.

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On April 12 Ballet "Arabesque" will dance
for the 50th birthday of Boriana Sechanova - an original and talented artist

ONE EVENING WITH THE CREATIVE OF BORIANA SECHANOVA

Fragments of the performances of B.Sechanova: „CARMINA BURANA” –music by Karl Orff , „¾  MOON “ – music Johann Strauss  , „DON JUAN” –music by Hristo Petkov,  „MED WINE” – folk music,  „ALL THAT JAZZ!”, and „HAIR”  – director Boris Pankin, music director Evgeni Gospodinov.

Performed from:

The artist of Ballet “Arabesque” :  Teodora Stefanova, Konstantina Handjieva, Daniela Ivanova, Angelina Gavrilova, Alexandra Savova, Mariana Krancheva, Marina Popova, Stefka Tabakova, Tanya Kacarova, Asen Nakov, Petar Petkov, Vasil Dipchikov, Ivan Ivanov, Stefan Vuchov, Chan The Chung, Alexander Minov, and the students from NATFA “Kr.Sarafov” – Ivan Marinov, Valeri Kirilov, Filip Milanov

With the special participation of the actors: Niki Sotirov, Jeni Lecheva, Elena Atanasova, Mariana Yotova, Marian Bachev, Stanislav Dimitrov, Nikolai Dogramadjiev, Nikolai Ganchev (RUDI) and Anna Pampulova and the sloists of National Opera and Ballet – Sofia – Darina Bedeva, Trifon Mitev  and Rosen Kanev.

More info you will find here