Saint Petersburg Ballet on Ice brings again the snowflakes dance at Sala Palatului in Bucharest on January 17, at 7 p.m, German Quality Entertainment informs. The Nutcracker show on ice enjoyed a great success, and the blend of skating, dance, theatre, stunts and Tchaikovsky’s music was in vogue worldwide.
Therefore, the Russian skaters will preserve the magic atmosphere of the winter holidays also after they are gone. The main coreographer Konstantin Rassadin said the January show “will be a much brilliant one”.
Tickets are available ranging from RON 100, RON 150, RON 200 to RON 300 and 350 and can be purchased online at bilet.ro, bilete.ro, eventim.ro, myticket.ro, salapalatului.ro, as well as in Diverta, Inmedio and Germanos stores, at the Romanian Post offices or directly at Sala Palatului booking office.
METRO Cash & Carry Romania is the official partner of the event.
The Saint-Petersburg State Ballet on ice (former the Leningrad State Ballet on ice) founded in 1967 by the outstanding choreographer Konstantin Boyarsky, is the successor of the remarkable traditions of the St.Petersburg school of the classical ballet.
The Ballet is headed by its Artistic Director, former soloist of the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet, Merited Artist of Russia, principal choreographer Konstantin Rassadin, a school-mate of Rudolf Nuriev. He participated in the performances jointly with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova. All the productions are staged by Rassadin.
Musical Director and one of the co-founders of the Ballet is Leo Korkhin, prominent Russian conductor who conducts quite a number of orchestras including the renowned Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Society named after D.Shostakovich.
The multiple World and European champions, double Olympic champions Ludmila Beloussova and Oleg Protopopov; multiple World and European champion, Olympic champion Alexei Ulanov; multiple prize winner of the World and European figure-skating competitions and Olympic games Ludmila Smirnova danced in the Ballet at different times. There are about 20 dancers in the company who have the honorable titles of the Masters of Sports of Russia for the victories at the all-Russia and international figure-skating competitions. Since 1995 the Saint-Petersburg Ballet on ice has been performing on stage of opera theaters. It shows the most famous ballets by P.Tchaikovsky: “Sleeping Beauty”, “Swan Lake”, “Nutcracker” and ballets by S.Prokofiev “Cinderella” and “Romeo and Juliet” as well.