25 February 18.30
Erarta Gallery, London

Thu 25 July 2013 - Sat 27 July 2013
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES
75 years after Nureyev's birth and 20 since his death, English National Ballet celebrates the legacy of this uniquely gifted dancer from his traditional classical beginnings through to his inspirational innovation.

26 March - 7 April
at The London Coliseum
St Martin's Ln, Charing Cross WC2N 4ES

31 December, Monday, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Barbican Centre Silk Street City of London EC2Y 8DS
Stunning music and beautifully performed dance from some of the most loved ballets of all time

24 - 26 August 2012, 30 August - 1 September 2012
Edinburgh
Don't miss Dmitry Krymov‘s Midsummer Night's Dream and the Mariinsky Ballet's legendary Cinderella at Edinburgh International Festival!

2 August - 11 August 2012,
London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
Swan Lake brings the romance and high drama of the grand Russian ballet tradition alive.

28 July 2012, 6.30pm
The Screening Room, MPC, 127 Wardour Street, London, W1F 0NL
Following An Evening with Andris Liepa, there will be a screening of the mysterious and gracious The Blue God. Andris Liepa's revival of a Ballet Russes performance now a century old reconnects with the golden age under Diaghilev, whilst continuing a tradition of innovation and beautiful dance.

28 July 2012, 6.30pm
The Screening Room, MPC, 127 Wardour Street, London, W1F 0NL
Academia Rossica, in collaboration with Snob, is delighted to invite you to a very special evening with the legendary Liepa family. Ballet star Andris Liepa will host a retrospective of the life and career of his father, Maris Liepa, one of the greatest dancers and choreographers of the Bolshoi Ballet’s Golden Age.

29 July 2012, 5pm
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
Following the sensational success of the Diaghilev Festival in 2011, Saison Russes de XXIe Siècle presents yet another stunning performance at London’s Coliseum, this time a Gala in tribute to the legendary Bolshoi dancer Maris Liepa celebrating many of the legendary Liepa original commissions that have become a major part of the Bolshoi’s repertoire.

3-7 April 2012, London Coliseum
The celebrated Eifman ballet company comes to the London Coliseum with two spectacular UK premieres: Anna Karenina and Onegin.

Having once escaped from the Earth’s gravitational pull, on his return Gagarin naturally found himself back in its power and he felt it just like everyone else. But the unique status that in reality was his for only one and a half hours was miraculously prolonged: in the eyes of virtually the entire population of the planet he remained a body free of the influence of earthly gravity.

25 July - 13 August
The Mariinsky Ballet put on six stellar productions at the Royal Opera House.

5 - 11 January
The English National Ballet performs Rudolf Nureyev's original award-winning production of the passionate ballet set to Prokofiev's powerful score.

Diaghilev fever is taking London by storm. The V&A's major exhibition 'Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929' reveals Diaghilev's enduring influence on 20th-century art, design and fashion. The V&A is also holding a number of other Diaghilev themed events, including 'The Music of Diaghilev with the Philharmonia Orchestra' and 'Rephrasing the Ballets Russes', in collaboration with the English National Ballet. And the perfect accompaniment to this year's season of Diaghilev events is Sjeng Scheijen's new biography of the arguably the greatest (and most controversial) impresario of all time.

30 September – 25 October
The Royal Ballet perform John Cranko's Onegin at the Royal Opera House. Stage designs and music taken from Tchaikovsky in a specially created score bring the world of imperial Russia vividly alive to complete a ballet of colour, drama, beauty and passion.

27 and 29 January, 7.30pm
Barbican Hall
£5 for Academia Rossica fans!
Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' and Bartok's 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle'
Stravinsky’s pulsating masterpiece was written for Nijinsky’s ballet about a prehistoric community which selects a young virgin for ecstatic human sacrifice. ‘We were dumbfounded,’ wrote an early listener, ‘overwhelmed by this hurricane which… had taken life by the roots.’

27 February to 4 April
£10 - £110 Royal Opera House
Swan Lake is one of the most loved of all classical ballets and one of the most popular in the Royal Ballet repertory. It has that magical combination of Tchaikovsky’s music, a compelling story of tragic romance and choreography that allows the very best dancers to show just how impressive they can be.

Imperial Russian Ballet
Oranienbaum: Chinoiserie a la Russe
A la Russe: the Russian art of performance through the 18th and 19th centuries is celebrated in this issue, dedicated to Russia’s most famous ballets and to Catherine the Great’s personal Dacha – Oranienbaum.