GALA CONCERRT BENOIS DE LA DANSE STARS — LAUREATES OF DIFFERENT YEARS.

The program boasts works of different dance styles. The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

On the second evening, stars from leading ballet companies around the world took to the stage. Representing the Bolshoi Theatre were: Svetlana Zakharova, Artemiy Belyakov, Evgenia Obraztsova, Artem Ovcharenko, and Denis Rodkin. From the Mariinsky Theatre - Olesya Novikova, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Konstantin Zverev. From the Tokyo Ballet - Akira Akiyama and Arata Miyagawa. From the Liaoning Ballet Troupe - Sun Huixin and Zhang Haidong. The Mikhailovsky Theatre was represented by presented: Irina Perren, Danila Khamzin, and Ivan Zaytsev.

The ballet director of Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, Maksim Sevagin, presented his new work "The King and the Jester," created specifically for this evening. The Yakobson Ballet Theatre showed a fragment of "Mischievous Couplets" choreographed by Benois laureate Vyacheslav Samodurov.