Choreography Session 2023

LOCATION:

Russia, St. Petersburg, Boris Eifman Dance Academy

Russia, St. Petersburg, Alexandrinsky Theatre (main stage)

DATES:

July 5 - July 25, 2023

July 28 - July 29, 2023

COURSES:

Choreography Laboratory
| Performance Laboratory

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CHOREO GRAPHY SESSION 2023

TOPIC OF THE PROJECT:

CREATIVITY UNITES

The major subject of the School is the value selection between the internal own values and what affects a man from the outside, such as mass media, Internet, and common stereotypes. How does a modern man pass through such value conflict? What contradictory values do people face? What value dilemmas do they solve? How to save global values and avoid instantaneous influences?

Participants had to reflect the struggle inside a modern man between eternal true global principles and aggressively imposed inane temptations of the modern world.

SESSION PROGRAM INCLUDED:

Three weeks filled with an effective program:
Classical Russian ballet lessons - 20 h
Contemporary dance technique - 20 h
Hours of rehearsals - 45 h

For the third time, the Boris Eifman Dance Academy hosted the Choreography Session of the Innopraktika School. Its goal and mission, as before, was cultural exchange. The School received applications for participation in the choreography session from 50 countries, including 17 countries of the African continent. Based on the results of a detailed selection 16 dancers and choreographers from 13 countries were invited for the residency at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy, including six participants from Nigeria, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Uganda and Senegal.

For three weeks of fruitful work, Russian choreographers created unique productions with foreign dancers, while foreign choreographers worked with students of the Dance Academy - they gave master classes in modern and classical Chinese dance, and also created several new choreographic miniatures on a given topic.

The final concert of the Choreography session was held on the stage of the Dance Academy Theatre. Especially for the new performances School organized the creation of author's costumes and necessary stage props, music was written by professional composers, and unique lighting designs were created. A team of professional make-up artists was invited for the performers that day.

In addition, the School organized a rich cultural program: the participants of the session visited the Mariinsky, Mikhailovsky and Alexandrinsky theatres, the State Hermitage Museum, the State Museum-Reserves Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof, witnessed the traditional drawing of bridges, visited the iconic cathedrals of the city in order to better imbue the culture and life of Russia and St. Petersburg.

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ABOUT BORIS EIFMAN DANCE ACADEMY

The Dance Academy was founded with the initiative of the world-famous choreographer Boris Eifman. This is the state choreographic Academy with an innovative program for the dancers.
Students suitably train in Russian classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance techniques to become the world’s most in-demand artists. The Dance Academy is the only choreographic school in Russia that accepts children from 9 years old. Pupils perform the choreography of various styles and try themselves in the role of novice production authors. The international recognition of the Academy allows students to join the world of ballet trends and achievements.

Representatives of the leading ballet theatres and companies from China, France, Great Britain, the USA, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, Hungary and Finland regularly conduct master classes. The pupils have a unique opportunity to meet prominent world ballet personalities: legendary dancer Ana Laguna, the famous teacher of the Maurice Bejart school Azariy Plisetskiy, and other outstanding representatives of the world of dance. All the graduats recieve the Diploma of the Ballet Artist and enroll the ballet companies of Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, the Bolshoi Theater, The Saint-Petersburg State Academic Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre, the Mariinsky Theater and others.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PROFESSORS

Laureate of the Solo Dance choreographers' competition (Chelyabinsk, 2007, 1st prize)
Laureate of the choreographers' competition "Inspiration of the 21st century" (Kaliningrad, 2010, 1st prize)
Laureate of the competition "Alternative" (St. Petersburg, 2010, II prize among performers; 2011, III prize among choreographers)
Laureate of the choreographers' competition at the International Forum "Ballet XXI Century" (Krasnoyarsk, 2012, 1st prize)
Laureate of the International Festival of Contemporary Choreography in Vitebsk (Belarus, 2012, II Prize and Special Prize named after Evgeny Panfilov)
Laureate of the Open Russian Ballet Competition "Arabesque" named after Ekaterina Maksimova (Perm, 2016, 1st prize in the contemporary choreography competition, Russian Union of Theater Workers and Press Jury awards).

In 2010 he graduated from the choreography department of the Chelyabinsk Pedagogical University. He earned his master’s degree in "the art of the choreographer" at the Vaganova Academy.

He worked in the Yekaterinburg theater "Provincial Dances" under the direction of Tatyana Baganova. In 2012, in St. Petersburg, he organized the Aqueduct modern dance company. Author of productions for students of the Vaganova Academy. Contemporary dance teacher at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy. He took part in the dance-platform choreographic workshops of the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre, presenting the productions of Charon's Way to music by Georg Friedrich Handel (2012), Alter Ego to music by Ludwig van Beethoven and Dawn to music by Antonio Vivaldi (2013).

At the Ballet Theatre of Leonid Yakobson he directed the one-act ballets Collision to music by Joby Talbot (2013) and Rehearsal to music by Franz Joseph Haydn and Konstantin Chistyakov (2015).

In 2014, at the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater, he staged the ballet Vacancy to music by Franz Schubert and Joseph Haydn. In 2015, at the Evgeny Panfilov Ballet Theater in Perm, he staged the miniature Genesis to music by Kimmo Pohjonen and the one-act ballet Anxious Sky to music by Franz Schubert and Konstantin Chistyakov. At the Moscow theater "New Ballet" he choreographed "Winter Rose" (2015) to music by Antonio Vivaldi and "Swept Away" (2017) to music by Giovanni Sollima and Joseph Haydn, arranged by Konstantin Chistyakov. At the Bolshoi Theater, as part of the Youth Program "Faces", he presented productions of "Waiting Room" (2016) and "Island" (2017). In 2018 at the Mariinsky Theater he staged the one-act ballet The Four Seasons to music by Alexander Glazunov.