The Gallus Hall of Cankarjev dom will be transformed into an ice fairy tale for the second time in its history, as it will host the St. Petersburg State Ballet on Ice on November 11 and 12 this year. The ice stage will represent an excellent basis for a rich and superbly elaborate scenography for the staging of the Nutcracker ballet.
Within European tours it will one of the most popular ballets of all time in its ice version also presented in Ljubljana and made sure that the stage of the Hall of Gallus would become an ice surface again for the second time in history and after more than fifteen years. The main choreographer of the Nutcracker spectacle is an honored Russian artist Constantine A. Rassadin.
Saint Petersburg State Ballet on Ice (former Leningrad State Ballet on Ice), founded 150 years ago by an outstanding choreographer Konstantin Boyarsky, is a successor to the tradition of the St. Petersburg School of Classical Ballet. The State Ballet on Ice performs the most famous ballets Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Nutcracker) and Sergei Prokofiev (Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet).
The skaters of the St. Petersburg Ballet performed more than 7000 performances around the world, and most of them won in individual performances or doubles Russian and international awards in figure skating. With the help of Rassadin, they successfully combined the elements of athletic figure skating with elements of classical ballet in connected them into a glamorous whole. A ballet fairy tale The Nutcracker in two acts all lovers of ballet virtuosity and figure skating will be able to see it.
More information:
balletonice.spb.ru
