Speed Dating

Year: 2025
Country: Russia
Music by: Claude Debussy, Dmitriy Mazurov, Anatoliy Korolyov, Gleb Lukomets, Roman Tsypyshev, Andrey Chernyshyov, Aleksandr Belousov, Rigel Vinskaya, Lidiya-Maria Koshevaya
Music Director: Ivan Zhudyakov-Vedenyapin
Conductor: Maksim Kozlov
Choreography: Maksim Petrov, Anton Pimonov, Aleksandr Merkushev, Alessandro Caggegi, Konstantin Khlebnikov, Hideki Yasumura, Evgeniy Balobanov
Costume design: Lev Khlebnikov (MARÉM), Elena Trubetskova
Lighting designers: Dmitriy Vikulov, Nina Indrikson, Ksenia Kotenyova
Executive producer: Anastasia Kvashnina
Cast: Mikhail Volkov, Miki Nisiguti, Anna Domke, Evgeniy Balobanov, Maria Mikheeva, Gleb Sageev, Alessandro Caggegi, Aleksandr Merkushev, Elena Vorobyova, Hideki Yasumura, Tomoha Terada, Mana Kuwabara
Genre: ballet
Runtime: 82 min.
Age: 12+
The title reveals the structure and essence. Six duets, brief encounters and long farewells: dramatic, comic, frantic, quiet, and tender. The ballet's synopsis can be summed up by the old wisdom of choreographer George Balanchine: "A man and a woman on stage already constitute a plot." In turn, the audience encounters new composers—none of them have written for ballet before—and these, too, are brief encounters with the hope of continuation.