HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET:

Dance Open Star Galas of different seasons presented pieces by a wide variety of choreographers. The ballet as an art is notable for its capacity to keep alive and highly demanded with no regard to the current era: Petipa, Fokin, and Vainonen are no less important today than Wheeldon, Ratmansky or Ekman. We have collected world masterpieces performed by the world’s best dancers at Dance Open Galas and have executed a videostory of the development of Russian ballet thought. The one and a half centuries of thrilling history from Arthur Saint-Léon and Jules Perrot to Boris Eifman and Yury Posokhov. Vivid video sketches will tell about each choreographer in a short, concise and cheerful manner.