The Royalty Ballet of the United States will perform for the first time at Havana’s Grand Theater Alicia Alonso on August 20th.

Organized by the Cuban Performing Arts Council and Improvedance of Cincinnati, the company is set to dance fragments of Le Sylphide, Giselle, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Le Corsaire, the Black Swan of Swan Lake, the Flames of Paris, Dying Swan, Le Bourgeois and other classical and contemporary pieces.

The ensemble includes twelve of the most important dancers in the world’s dance scene today, such as Ivan Vasiliev, Iana Salenko, Mathew Golding, Rodrigo Almarales, Joseph Gatti, Daniil Simkin, Jurgita Dronina, Misa Kuranaga, Maria Kochetkova, Semyon Chudin, Adiarys Almeida and Desmond Richarson. The dancers of different nationalities make up other top ballet companies, such as American Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet and San Francisco Ballet in the United States;  the Bolshoi, Kirov and Mikhailovsky Ballets in Russia; the Royal and English National Ballets in the UK; the Berlin Opera Ballet in Germany  and the Scala of Milano in Italy.

The Royalty’s unique presentation in Havana comes on the heels of Havana’s International Ballet Festival, scheduled for October 28th through November 6th.