On 18 December at the historic Mariinsky Theatre there will be a gala performance by Yulia Makhalina, prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre and People’s Artist of Russia. Yulia Makhalina is dedicating her artistic soiree to her theatre teachers Olga Nikolaevna Moiseyeva and Gennady Naumovich Selyutsky.
The evening will open with Vladimir Romanovsky’s one-act ballet Variations on a Theme set to music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, created specially for Yulia Makhalina. The programme also includes a divertissement of highlights from various productions and both contemporary and classical choreography.
The gala will feature Mariinsky Ballet dancers: Alexandra Iosifidi, Yulia Kobzar, Anastasia Matvienko, Olesya Novikova, Sofia Ivanova-Skoblikova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Roman Belyakov, Andrei Yermakov, David Zaleyev, Yevgeny Ivanchenko, Igor Kolb, Danila Korsuntsev, Ernest Latypov and Alexander Sergeyev, soloists of the Mikhailovsky Theatre Yekaterina Borchenko and Andrei Kasianenko, soloists of the Boris Eifman Ballet Theatre Lilia Lishchuk and Igor Subbotin and dancer and choreographer Vera Arbuzova. Alexander Repnikov will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra.
Yulia Makhalina has dazzled at the Mariinsky Theatre for thirty-two seasons, twenty-seven of them as a prima ballerina. Elegant and flawless, she has enchanted St Petersburg audiences with roles in classical productions, imbuing each of her heroines with powerful but incredibly romantic features. The prima ballerina’s repertoire includes over sixty roles, among them ballets by Kenneth MacMillan, Radu Poklitaru, Alexei Ratmansky, Maurice Béjart, Yuri Grigorovich and George Balanchine. Today it is rare to see this outstanding dancer on the stage. In recent years she has dedicated greater attention to a new role – that of a teacher and coach.
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