The ballet In a Minor Key premiered at the Mikhailovsky Theatre
The Mikhailovsky Theatre closed its 177th ballet season with the gala concert featuring the world premiere of Slava Samodurov’s ballet In a Minor Key.
    The one-act ballet set to music by Domenico Scarlatti is the first major choreographic piece by Samodurov in Russia. The ballet was specially created for the Mikhailovsky Ballet Company. Vera Arbuzova, Irina Perren, Antonina Chapkina, Evgeny Deryabin, Nikolay Korypayev, Andrey Yakhnyuk took part in the premiere performance.

The gala closing of the season also included the one-act ballet after Marius Petipa set to music by Ivan Armsheimer The Cavalry Halt and Divertissements consisting of the fragments of classical and contemporary choreography. The Mikhailovsky ballet Company also presented the revival of character dances Polonaise and Cracovienne from the opera Ivan Susanin.