The Company has announced its plans for a new season

On August 30, Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg has finished the summer vacation. Having held a traditional gathering, the Company began preparations for the opening of a new 41st season. During the first half of the season, the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Eifman Ballet, celebrated this year, is going to continue. We would like to call your attention to the information about creative plans of the Company for 2017–2018.

Already on September 7, Eifman Ballet will start a tour in China. It will last till September 16 and include Shanghai and Beijing. In both cities the ballets Anna Karenina and Rodin, Her Eternal Idol will be presented. The Beijing performances will open the program of the annual Dance Festival of the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) – the major Chinese venue that will host the shows.

In the second half of September, the Company will perform in Vladivostok for the first time (at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre) and also will visit Khabarovsk. The audience of the cities of the Russian Far East will see the ballet Eugene Onegin. Performances in Khabarovsk, as well as the first two of the three scheduled shows in Vladivostok will be held with the support of PJSC Rosneft.

On September 29, the new version of Russian Hamlet, 2017 premiere, will be danced at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. On this day 40 years ago the first official public performance of Eifman Ballet took place in Leningrad, which became the starting point in the Company’s history.

In the beginning of October, Eifman Ballet will visit Chisinau with Beyond Sin, and in the second half of the month will perform the same ballet (as well as Red Giselle) in St. Petersburg. The end of October and the beginning of November will be marked by tours in Surgut and Krasnoyarsk (with Anna Karenina and Eugene Onegin). These performances will be a continuation of the collaboration of Eifman Ballet and PJSC Rosneft.

The premiere of Beyond Sin in Bratislava is scheduled for November 17. Boris Eifman’s ballet based on The Brothers Karamazov novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky will be performed by the dancers of the Slovak National Theatre. Eifman Ballet will present Anna Karenina at the Lausanne Opera on November 18 and 19. On November 25, the concert “Eifman Gala” will be held at Barvikha Concert Hall (Moscow) in honor of the Company’s 40th anniversary. The program of the event will include the fragments from Boris Eifman’s best productions.

The culmination of the jubilee celebration will be a grand gala concert at the Alexandrinsky Theatre. The event is scheduled for December 12. In addition to the scenes from the selected performances of the Company, the audience of St. Petersburg will see the pieces performed by the students of the Boris Eifman Dance Academy, as well as the promising choreographers’ works.

On the eve of the Christmas holidays Eifman Ballet will go on tour to Spain bringing Anna Karenina to the famous Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and to Pamplona. The Company will visit the capital of Catalonia for the first time in its history.

The beginning of January will be marked by the participation of Eifman Ballet in the 3rd China International Ballet Season (Beijing) with the Beyond Sin. Then the dancers will return to St. Petersburg where the shooting of the screen ballet Russian Hamlet will commence.

The significant event of February will be the shows of the ballet Requiem in Montreal accompanied by an orchestra and a choir. In the second half of March the tour of the Company will be held in the Baltic states with Tchaikovsky. PRO et CONTRA. The tour will cover Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and Kaliningrad.

In April, Eifman Ballet will make its debut at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The Company will give a series of performances of Anna Karenina in the largest and most prestigious cultural center of New York. Dancers will be accompanied by an orchestra.

In May, the Company will participate in the International Lake Constance Festival (Bodenseefestival) that is held in Friedrichshafen (Germany). Local audience will be able to get acquainted with the ballet Eugene Onegin. Two performances will also be accompanied by an orchestra.

An intensive touring schedule of the Company is prepared for June. During this month Eifman Ballet will perform in Monaco, Recklinghausen (within the framework of Ruhrfestspiele, one of the oldest European arts festivals), as well as in Vienna and other capitals on the Danube. European tour will draw a line under the 41st season of the Company.

In addition, in 2017–2018 Boris Eifman is planning to work on a new production. The ballet inspired by the myth of the sculptor Pygmalion and the pieces of art that reinterpret the given plot will be the first resort of the choreographer to the comic genre over the years.