DANCERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS FROM 13 COUNTRIES WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE CHOREOGRAPHY SESSION OF THE INNOPRAKTIKA SCHOOL
From July 5 to 29, the Boris Eifman Dance Academy will host Innopraktika School’s Choreography Session with outstanding international dancers, choreographers as well as students of the Dance Academy. The performances created during the educational program will be presented on the main stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater as part of the Third Summer Festival of the Global Values School within the framework of The Russia-Africa Summit.
The long-awaited School of Innopraktika’s Choreography Session kicks off on July 5, with a record number of applications this year. The Organizing Committee of the session received and reviewed 150 applications for the dance workshop and 65 for the choreography workshop. 215 applications were submitted to the School of Innopraktika from 50 countries around the world, including 17 states on the African continent.
Twenty-one candidates, including fifteen talented international dancers and six internationally sought-after choreographers, were short-listed for the session. Boris Eifman, the artistic director of the Choreography Session, approved the list of finalists, confirming the participation of 16 people from 13 countries: 13 dancers and 3 choreographers. Participants from the United States, France, China, Israel, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, India, Nigeria, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Senegal and Northern Macedonia will come to the Boris Eifman Dance Academy to study classical and contemporary dance. Twenty-six students of the Dance Academy will join the session along with the international choreographers and performers.
How do modern people experience the conflict between personal and societal values? What conflicting values do people face? How to preserve global values and avoid momentary influences? These and many other philosophical questions can be answered by the students participating in the Choreography Session in their creative productions. The dances of the participants should reflect the struggle within modern humans between eternal, true global principles and the imposed temptations of the modern world. Three weeks of intensive training await the participants of the session, 45 hours of rehearsals will be held at the Boris Eifman’s Dance Academy, one of the best choreographic educational institutions in Russia. International dancers and choreographers will actively interact with the Academy of Dance students, create joint productions and exchange cultural and professional experience during the educational process.
“Dance is a universal language of spiritual communication that overcomes all barriers and boundaries. It is no coincidence that for the third year, the Boris Eifman Dance Academy hosts Innopraktika School’s Choreography Session, which aims to promote intercultural dialogue between people from different countries, artistic perspectives, and aesthetic traditions. This direction is fully consistent with the Academy’s mission, which is to prepare a universal dancer of the XXI century,” said Boris Eifman, President of the Academy, sharing his opinion on the session.
The culmination of the Choreography Session will be the III Global Values Festival, in which choreographers and dancers will present their productions at the Alexandrinsky Theater. In 2023, the Global Values Festival was included in The Russia-Africa Summit due to the successful experience of creative interaction with representatives of African countries at previous sessions of the Innopraktika School. In the competition, six participants from Nigeria, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Uganda and Senegal proved their choreographic skills and deep artistic understanding of contemporary cultural processes. The organizers plan to integrate the festival into The Russia-Africa Summit structure will become a reliable basis for a constructive dialogue between peoples and a basis for developing common humanitarian values.
Natalia Popova, First Deputy General Director of Innopraktika company, also noted the high cultural significance of the Global Values Festival and School’s Choreography Session: “We live in a time when communication between people based on universal global values is nothing less than a path to greater understanding between all of us. Dance is a beautiful and universal way to talk about things that are important and understandable to everyone.
The Innopraktika School also prepared a rich cultural program for session participants: visits to ballet theaters, exhibitions and museums in St. Petersburg. The whole program is free for the participants and is integral to getting to know Russia while international guests stay and study here.
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