This year more than 30 creative groups and individual dancers from Belarus, Russia and China are taking part in the competition. Exhibitions, master classes, lectures and open discussions — the program of the festival is as rich as always. The IFMC was opened by the Saint-Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre. The program includes performances of the ballet by Yevgeny Panfilov, as well as its joint project with the Belarusian State Youth Theatre — the performance "Beauty".