At the premiere of the ballet “Nureyev” company called for the release of Director Cyril Serebrennikov. About this in his Facebook wrote the journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar.
“On the back among the graffiti inscription K. Serebr. On stage, the composer Ilya Demutsky, choreographer Yuri Posokhov and the rest in t-shirts with Kirill Serebrennikov”, — he wrote.
The premiere of the ballet about a dancer-defector Rudolf Nureyev staged Serebrennikov had to go through July 11. That show will not take place, it became known on 8 July.
Silver is accused of embezzlement in the amount of not less than 68 million rubles allocated from the state budget for the implementation of the art project “Platform” in 2011-2014. The Director is under house arrest since the end of August. December 4, judge Oleg Gaidar decided to recognize as lawful the decision on prolongation of arrest of the Director until 19 January.