Leonid Jacobson Ballet Company. New Season at the Mikhailovsky Theatre
On July, 10 Leonid Jacobson Ballet Company starts its new season at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. During the two summer months the public will see the ballets Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, and Spartacus, the latest premiere of the Company.


    Leonid Jacobson, a brilliant choreographer and a marvelous extemporizer, who was always looking for new expressive forms and methods, brought the dance plastique to ballet theatre. Always full of fantasies and always original, he was great at staging choreographic miniatures.

The Company’s Swan Lake is homage to classical Russian repertoire. Romeo and Juliet was staged by Yury Petukhov for the Company. The Nutcracker is one of the best-known and loved ballets by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The key event of the season is Leonid Jacobson’s Spartacus called by the choreographer «scenes from Roman life.» For the first time in Russian ballet history Jacobson based a full-length ballet on «free plastique» where the dancers wore tunicae and sandals. The choreographer denied classical dance with its rules and cannons and created his new language of dance.