Episode 1. A workers’ district. The street is ruled by the young Hooligan.
The Young Lady makes a tremendous impression on him.
Episode 2. At school. The Hooligan recognises the new pupil as the Young Lady.
She stops the «unbridled» Hooligan.
Episode 3. A park. The Hooligan wishes to tell the Young Lady of his love.
She runs away.
Episode 4. The Hooligan is in a restaurant.
The Young Lady appears to him as a vision. He runs to her.
The Leader tries to restrain him.
Episode 5. The Hooligan at the Young Lady’s house.
Episode 6. A park. Drunken youths are scaring the people walking there.
The Hooligan defends the Young Lady and her friends.
The Hooligan’s former friends take their revenge.
Fatally wounded, he heads for the Young Lady’s house.
Episode 7. The street. The Hooligan dies in the Young Lady’s arms.
Ballet No 2
Music by Alexander Tsfasman
Choreography by Maxim Petrov
Set Designer: Sergei Grachev
Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer: Igor Vints
Premiere: 21 March 2015, Mariinsky Theatre
(as a part of the project A Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers)
Leningrad Symphony
Music by Dmitry Shostakovich
Libretto and Choreography by Igor Belsky
Design by Mikhail Gordon
World premiere: 14 April 1961, Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Mariinsky), Leningrad
Premiere of the reconstructed version: 30 May, 2001, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Running time 30 minutes