THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET

The classical ballet has a long tradition in Russia, a high class art, celebrated for centuries up until today. Famous for its perfect technique, Russian ballet turns the human body into an instrument of expression and creates a level of perfection in stage dance. The RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET is one of the most renowned dance companies in Moscow and has traveled the world for decades with its troupes of ballet goddesses and gods.

The tours of the RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET under the direction of Anna Alexsidze have brought the high art of Russian ballet to the stages worldwide, presenting the graduates from the most famous academies in Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev, Samara, Perm and Ekaterinburg, featuring more than 50 dancers from all over the country with outstanding achievements and international renown. The prime principle of the RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET is to create a harmonic and compact picture and an absolute precise dance technique.

The ballet tours with its own wonderfully detailed and rich costumes and beautiful scenerys to create a magical and intense  atmosphere for each of the pieces.

Among the possible programs that can be booked are the most famous pieces in ballet:

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

Music by Petr Il'ich Tchaikovsky

A fantastic ballet fairytale for all generations, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY is the most convincing ballet piece from Czarist times. Tchaikovsky himself considered THE SLEEPING BEAUTY to be his best ballet works. A fascinating and opulent trip into old times with beautiful and romantic costumes.


THE NUTCRACKER

Music by Petr Il'ich Tchaikovsky

A divine Christmas ballet for the entire family. The show takes the spectator to the land of dreams, where the good rules. A graceful and poetic dance style with both, lightness and huge precision. One of the most beautiful ballets of all times.


SWAN LAKE

Music by Petr Il'ich Tchaikovsky

An outstanding masterpiece, full of poetry, elegance and grace, telling the traditional story of Princess Odette, who has been turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse and Prince Siegfried, a story full of desire, loneliness, envy, fear, pain and happiness. A story about the victory of love.


CARMEN

Music by George Bizet

Bizet’s world famous composition formed the basis for this beautiful ballet, choreographed by ALBERTO ALONSO, the chief choreographer of the National Ballet of Cuba. ALONSO wrote the piece especially for MAYA PLISETSKAYA, one of the most divine and famous ballerinas of the 20^th century. It premiered at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre in 1967 and hasn’t lost impact since then.


CINDERELLA

Music by Sergei Prokofiev

One of the greatest stories ever told. It is a story of love overruling everything. The poor neglected Cinderella meets a fairy godmother who fits her with beautiful attire and everything necessary to go to a grand ball where she then meets the prince of her dreams. One of the most renowned ballet classics, beautifully staged.


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