“World Ballet Company is dedicated to demystifying the art of ballet.”
“Swan Lake is brought to life by an exceptional ensemble with detailed hand-crafted costumes and rich storytelling.”
“A heightened sense of reality, folk tales, and folk dances transmogrified into sinuous spectacle”
“Like a time capsule, capturing the richness and fullness that once defined all ballet”
“Classic ballet traditions while adding new choreography, hand-painted sets, and beyond beautiful hand-sewn costumes”
“One of the most transcendent cultural experiences I have had in a long time”
Nadezhda Kalinina is an acclaimed choreographer of more than 60 choreographic works for various theatrical and concert programs. St. Petersburg Conservatory graduate.
At the age of 14, she had already worked as a teacher of choreography and, by 15, had created her first choreographic classes—currently, she was the chief choreographer of the Omsk State Musical Theater.
Her ballets were staged in theatres of Russia and other countries, including the Mariinsky Theater, the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera Company, the St Petersburg Theater of Musical Comedy, the Voronezh State Opera and Ballet Theater, the National Opera and Ballet Theater of Baiseitova, the Rostov State Musical Theater, the Omsk State Musical Theater, the Musical Theater of the Republic of Karelia, the Sverdlovsk State Theater of Musical Comedy, the St. Petersburg State Theater Through the Looking Glass, Teatro Lirico Cagliari, and others.
Sergey Novikov is an acclaimed set and costume designer, St.Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts graduate, and the former principal designer of the Omsk State Musical Theater.
As a production designer, he has worked on over seventy productions in the most prominent companies across the globe.
Sergey Novikov work is referred to as “a surprise and delight. They are so colorful and airy that they make one believe in magic!”