Thirty-five Russian artists from the St Petersburg State Ice Ballet will perform the ballet Swan Lake on ice for the first time in Malta on January 10 and 11 at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta.

Three thousand kilogrammes of ice will transform the stage into a grand and spectacular ice rink.

The St Petersburg State Ice Ballet are the first and only ice ballet company to offer real classical ballets in classical ballet costumes and sets on an ice rink installed on the stage of a theatre.

The majority of the dancers come from the individual and pair figure skaters who have won Russian and international figure skating medals. They have trained intensively with the choreographer Konstantin Rassadin in order to merge elements of athletic figure skating with elements of classical Russian ballet to form a high quality artistic and graceful unit. Hence, the ex-European champion Olga Ivanova and the former Olympian Andrey Stroganov, for instance, now also dance to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

All the productions are staged by its principal choreographer – Merited Artist of Russia, Konstantin Rassadin.

For the last five years, these productions have been successfully performed on the best stages of the USA, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, China, Spain, Korea, Taiwan, Greece, Portugal and, Ireland.

Tickets can be purchased from the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, or by calling the Malta booking office on 2559 5750/1 or Gozo booking office on 2559 8266.