On 16 April, DANCE OPEN, a gala concert of international ballet stars, will be held at the BKZ Oktyabrsky. This is a real opportunity for ballet lovers to see how developed this art is in the world, as they will be able to see the best couples from different countries on the same stage.

The Festival's Organising Committee announces: The Festival, thanks to the government of Saint Petersburg, the Russian ministry of culture and its permanent business partners, showed the required high level and is ready to present the Saint Petersburg public a program worthy of the world's best gala concerts.

We have international ballet stars, whose names are rarely out of the news, from the most famous international ballet troupes, such as New York City Ballet и English National Ballet, Dutch National Ballet и Staatsoper Berlin, Boston Ballet и Bolshoi Theatre Russia, Mariinsky и Mikhailovsky theatres etc.

International ballet stars performing at the gala concert: Isabelle Ciaravola (Paris Opera Ballet), Mathieu Ganio (Paris Opera Ballet), Ekaterina Krysanova (Bolshoi Theatre), Anastasia Stashkevich (Bolshoi Theatre), Anna Tikhomirova (Bolshoi Theatre), Mikhael Lobuhin (Bolshoi Theatre), Artem Ovcharenko (Bolshoi Theatre), Maria Eichwald (Stuttgart Ballet), Filip Barankiewicz (Stuttgart Ballet), Denis Matvienko (National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine), Jiri Bubenicek (Dresden Semper Oper Ballet), Otto Bubenicek (Hamburg Ballet), Yonah Acosta (English National Ballet), Ashley Bouder (New York City Ballet), Daniel Ulbricht (New York City Ballet), Dinu Tamazlakaru (Staatsoper Berlin), Iana Salenko (Staatsoper Berlin), Marian Walter (Staatsoper Berlin), Irina Perren (Mikhailovsky Theatre), Ivan Vasiliev (Mikhailovsky Theatre), Marat Shemiunov (Mikhailovsky Theatre), Anastasia Matvienko (Mariinsky Theatre), Elena Algado (National Ballet of Spain), Miguel Angel Corbacho (National Ballet of Spain).

Program of Dance Open Gala

I act

1. Cesare Pugni, Anatoly Lyadov
   Choreography by Marius Petipa, Evgeniy Kacharov
   Grand pas de deux Carnival of Venice from the ballet Satanella
   Performed by Evgenia Obraztsova, Dinu Tamazlakaru and cors de ballet of the Yakobson Ballet Theater
   
   
2. Jules Massenet
   Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan
   Adagio from Manon
   Performed by Isabelle Ciaravola and Mathieu Ganio
   
   
3. Louis Moreau Gottschalk
   Choreography by George Balanchine
   Tarantella
   Performed by Ashley Bouder and Daniel Ulbricht
   
   
4. Arvo Pärt
   Choreography by Raimondo Rebeck
   Elegie der Herzen
   Performed by Iana Salenko and Marian Walter
   
   
5. Riccardo Drigo, Cesare Pugni, Romualdo Marenco
   Choreography by Nikolai Berezov
   Pas de deux from Esmeralda
   Performed by Ekaterina Krysanova and Artem Ovcharenko
   
   
6. Moritz Moszkowski
   Choreography by Vassily Vaynonen
   Waltz
   Performed by Anastasia Stashkevich and Mikhail Lobuhin
   
   
7. Domenico Scarlatti, adaptation by Kurt-Heinz Stolze
   Choreography by John Cranko
   Fragment from the Taming of Shrew
   Performed by Maria Eichwald and Filip Barankiewicz
   
   
8. Riccardo Drigo
   Choreography by Marius Petipa
   Pas de deux from Le Corsaire
   Performed by Iana Salenko and Laureate of Dance Open Award (2010/11) Ivan Vasiliev
   
   
9. Prince
   Choreography by Rasta Thomas
   Baby I Am a Star
   Special guest of the festival Bad Boys of Dance
   
   

II act

1. Cesare Pugni
   Choreography by Agrippina Vaganova
   Pas de Dian from the ballet La Esmeralda
   Performed by Anastasia Stashkevich and Laureate of Dance Open Award (2011) Yonah Acosta

2. Ástor Piazzolla
   Choreography by Servy Gallardo
   Tango
   Performed by Daniel Ulbricht

3. Marc-Olivier Dupin
   Choreography by José Martinez
   Les Enfants du paradis
   Performed by Isabelle Ciaravola and Mathieu Ganio

4. Pyotr Tchaikovsky
   Choreography by George Balanchine
   Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
   Performed by Evgenia Obraztsova and Semyon Chudin

5. Wim Martens
   Choreography by Claude Brumachon
   Les Indomptes
   Performed by Jiri Bubenicek and Otto Bubenicek

6. Diego Losada, Marina Albero
   Choreography by Elena Algado and Miguel Angel Corbacho
   Tiempo de suenos
   Performed by Elena Algado and Miguel Angel Corbacho

7. Jacques Brel
   Choreography by Ben van Cauwenbergh
   Les Bourgeios
   Performed by Dinu Tamazlakaru

8. Ludwig Minkus
   Choreography by Marius Petipa
   Grand pas from Don Quixote
   Performed by Laureates of Dance Open Award (2011) Anastasia and Denis Matvienko,
   corps de ballet of the Yakobson Ballet Theatre Variation by Anna Tikhomirova