The  Summer Ballet School Croatia is a joint project of the Luka Sorkočević Art School’s Ballet Department and the  B.F.K. Organisation, in which attendees from across the globe go through an intensive two-week classical and contemporary ballet programme under the guidance of world renowned ballet artists. This year’s lecturers are Nina Semizorova, ex prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre and receiver of numerous awards and acknowledgements, today’s ballet master and pedagogue of the Bolshoi Theatre and lecturer at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, along with Aleksandr Lukjanov, former ballet leader of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, first soloist of the National Opera and Ballet in Kiev and visiting soloist in the Bolshoi Theatre and Kirov Ballet, who is also the Art Director of the B.F.K. organization, and  Ivica Bago, Croatian dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.

The ballet concert, which is set to take place on Fort Revelin, consists of classical and contemporary ballet fragments, which includes fragments from the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty”, “Corsaire”, “Paquita”, “Esmeralda”, “Don Quixote” and “The Talisman” according to the choreography by Marius Petipa, fragments from the ballet „Cipollino“, choreographed by A. Lukjanov, who modeled after G. Majorov, “The Nutcracker” choreographed by Aleksandar Lukjanov, contemporary ballets “Midnight Waltz”, “The Balkans” and “Isolate” choreographed by Ivica Bago, “Wounded” choreographed by Aleksandar Lukjanov, as well as Hungarian, Irish and Gypsy character dances, also choreographed by Aleksandar Lukjanov.

Tickets for this ballet evening on Fort Revelin are available online at www.dubrovnik-festival.hr, at the Festival’s box offices in the Festival Palace, Visia Multimedia Center and Luža Culture and Information Center, as well as at the entrance one hour prior to the performance.