Siobhan Davies and her company are bringing a celebration of the human body to the St Petersburg stage, and Ms Davies said she hoped it would be interesting for local audiences.
"The classical dance tradition in St Petersburg is long, beautiful and extraordinary," said Ms Davies.
"I suppose the realization of contemporary dance in the old USSR was not encouraged. Russian modern dance is not seen here in London."
The program will include two performances: The Art of Touch and Wild Translations. The two were shown for the first time last month in London at the Dance Umbrella festival, where it was a huge success.
Ms Davies said she believed that dance is "a fantastic message of showing more about being human -- the body, the brain, the thinking, the combination of being unbelievably human and having a capability for abstract thoughts."
These beliefs are evident in her programs. She said she wanted her dancers to not only dance brilliantly, but to be able to show their personalities on stage.
She said that she also wanted a wide variety of dancers. Her female dancers are strong, energetic and determined -- as evident in the performance of Catherine Quinn.
In contrast, Paul Old is a large, graceful man who in dance is incredibly flowing, light and gentle.
With these different characters, Ms Davies creates a harmonic action on the stage where light, sets and music emphasize the beauty of a human body dancing.
The score for Wild Translation is Kevin Volan's Fifth String Quartet, which incorporates the recorded sounds of an African village.
The dance develops one of Ms Davies' favorite themes -- the borders and distances between people, how close one can get to another without damaging one's personality, all against the musical background of an African morning.
The Art of Touch, inspired by the piano sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, celebrating touch on all levels.
The first relationship for the seven dancers is with the floor: they skim over it and bounce off it.
Their next touchy relationship is with each other. The performers invite physical contact with their neighbors, and finally are completely interactive with everything around them -- other dancers, the light and the music.
Their movements are reminiscent of a musician's fingers on the keyboard -- a visual version of Scarlatti's music on the stage.
While the performances can be considered serious, one does not come away with a pensive, depressed feeling, but instead is inspired by the abilities of the human body.
The originally scheduled program was to show The Glass Blew In instead of The Art of Touch but was changed.