The Bolshoi Ballet gathers its friends and fans at 9:00 a.m. (Moscow time) and ‘shows and tells’ for five hours. According to the time zone, the Australian Ballet will kick off first (4:00 – 9:00, a.m. Moscow time), and the Royal Ballet will conclude the broadcast (14:00 – 19:00, p.m. Moscow time).
The Bolshoi will present its ballet school in Brazil, the morning class led by Bolshoi Ballet prominent master-repetiteur Boris Akimov, rehearsals of last season premiers – Forgotten Land, Nureyev, Anna Karenina – and the ballet La Bayadere. The Bolshoi’s program will also include individual classes and rehearsals with participation of the Bolshoi’s principal Denis Rodkin, a rising star from Italy Jacopo Tissi, budding dancers Mark Chino and Egor Gerashchenko, who will be presented by their coach Alexander Vetrov. Then the broadcast will take the viewers to Ekaterinburg, where we will meet Vyacheslav Samodurov with the artists of the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre.