For twenty endless years, we've hoped to see the ballet.

The original work was created for the street-art festival in Yekaterinburg in 2019.

On the wall of one of the technical buildings in Yekaterinburg, the artist depicted a television screen showing ballet dancers performing the "Dance of the Swans" from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake," visible through static interference.

This image is painfully familiar to the generation of the 90s in Russia and, for the artist, it reflects the needs of the current generation.The televised broadcast of "Swan Lake" from the Bolshoi Theatre during the USSR and post-Soviet era was a sure sign of significant political events in the country. This ballet was shown on TV during the days of mourning and the funerals of the General Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko. Finally, the "Swan Lake" performance became one of the most memorable symbols of the August Coup of 1991, as all television channels broadcast this ballet for three consecutive days during the events.

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