The Bolshoi Ballet Academy Graduation Ball – 2023

June 26, 2023, was marked by the issuance of Graduation Certificates and a Farewell Ceremony for the 2023 Graduation Class. Since 2023 is marked by the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Academy, a decision had been made to hold the farewell Ceremony in the format of a ball in one of Moscow’s architectural monuments – at the Catherine the Great Hall of the Tsaritsyno Grand Palace.

The Farewell Gala included a polonaise, a waltz, a sarabande, a polka-a-trois, a gavotte, a gallopade, along with other ballroom dances performed by the graduates. Foreign students (11 graduates and 2 interns from Italy, USA, UK, Japan, Taiwan and Kazakhstan) put together a “Thank You” dance number for the faculty of the Academy and guests of the ceremony.

We hope the Farewell Ceremony and Ball will remain in the hearts of the graduates as a commemoration of successful completion of a very important phase of their lives, and a start of a new exciting and thrilling stage full of hopes and confidence in future triumphs, happiness and thunderous applause by grateful audiences.

Best of luck, graduates!

We wish you bright and colorful creative journeys!

Text: Dmitry Linyaev

Photos: Elizaveta Emel’kina