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)
Concerto DSCH
Music by Dmitry Shostakovich
Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky
Assistant Choreographer: Tatiana Ratmanskaya
Lighting Designer: Mark Stanley
Costume Designer: Holly Hynes
Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 (1957). The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. The ballet's title derives from the composer's use of DSCH as a motif in allusion to his own name.