Wayne McGregor will present his ballet in St. Petersburg

Guests of the V International Art Festival "Diaghilev. PS ”, which will be held on November 19-28 in St. Petersburg, will be two British troupes with the performances“ FAR ”(choreography by Wayne McGregor) and“ Sutra ”(choreography of Sidi Larbi Sherkaii, Szenography Anthony Gormli).

Wayne McGregor’s ballet “Far” performed by the troupe “Random Dance” on November 19 will open the official program of the festival. At the end of the performance, a meeting with a choreographer and artists will come up in the Alexandrinsky Theater.

In the ballet "Sutra", which will be represented in the Alexandrinsky Theater on November 21 and 22, 17 Shaolin monks participate. The performance was staged in 2008 and, thanks to the extravagant scenography, Anthony Gormli became one of the most popular ballet performances of our time.

The festival program has a scientific conference “Anatomy of the Dance” with the participation of choreographers and researchers of the ballet language and the master class of the choreographer Wayne McGregor at the Dance Academy Boris Eifman.

On November 22, in the Great Hall of the Philharmonic, soloists, choir and orchestra of Musicaeterna of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater under the direction of Theodore Kurentsis will present the concert performance of the Persella and Eney Persella and Psalm Hendel Dixit Dominus .

In the Mikhailovsky Theater on November 25, the premiere of the opera Verdi “Trubadur” will be held in the production of Dmitry Chernyakov. In the main parties Tatyana Ryaguzova, Ildiko Komloshi, Arnold Rutkovsky, Scott Hendrix, Giovanni Furlatto.

On November 28, on the stage of the newly opened BDT, the ballets “Jester” (Prokofiev/Miroshnichenko) and “Wedding” (Stravinsky/Kilian) of the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater will be shown.

Fully the program of the festival "Diaghilev. PS " is given on his site.