The People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Kuimov Memorial The concert will take place on April 8 at the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. The concert programme includes rare archival video recordings and fragments of ballets that are rarely performed on the theatre’s stage.

So, in the first part of the Memorial Gala, spectators will see a video recording of the adagio from the ballet Giselle by Adolphe Adam performed by People's Artist of Russia Alexander Kuimov as Albert and People's Artist of Russia, ex-principal dancer of the Krasnoyarsk Theatre Alla Yukhimchuk as Giselle. Besides, the concert piece Ocean and Pearls, staged in 1996, will be presented to the audience; Alexander Eduardovich performed the part of Ocean. It’s a pas de trois filler to music by Andrei Arends from Cesare Pugni's ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse. On April 8, Oleksiy Skaliun, Elena Mikheecheva, Anastasia Nigmatulina will take the stage as Ocean and Pearls. Another concert piece - La Dame aux Camélias to music by Giuseppe Verdi - will be performed by Anna Fedosova and Yuri Kudriavtsev. For the first time, Alexander Kuimov danced the part in this production in 1998.

In the second part of the concert, the theatre ballet dancers who were taught Alexander Kuimov will perform an excerpt from Aram Khachaturian's ballet Spartacus: the scene Triumph of Rome and adagio (Crassus - Kirill Litvinenko, Phrygia - Natalia Bobrova, Spartacus - Georgy Bolsunovsky).

Cesare Pugni’s ballet Le Diable Amoureux was not staged at the Krasnoyarsk theatre, but the pas de deux Venice Carnival from this ballet gave the victory to the theatre's principal dancers Elena Svinko and Georgy Bolsunovsky at the Russian Ballet Dancers and Choreographers Competition in 2020. Elena will present the variation of Satanella at the concert Alexander.

The ballet Tsar Fish by the Krasnoyarsk composer Vladimir Porotsky was introduced on April 10 and 11, 1999, and dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the author of the ballet’s literary source - Viktor Astafiev. Principal dancers of the Bolshoi Theatre and the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre took part in the premiere performances, and Alexander Kuimov was among them. A video of Goga Gertsev's monologue performed by Alexander Kuimov will be shown on April 8.

The programme of the Memorial Gala dedicated to the outstanding artist also includes excerpts from the ballets Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus, Carmen by Georges Bizet, Anyuta by Valery Gavrilin, Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev. The concert will culminate in the poignant Lacrimosa - a fragment of the choreographic mystery Leningrad Symphony. Lamento to music by Alexei Syumak, Dmitri Shostakovich, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.