Choreography Session 2025

LOCATION:

Russia, St. Petersburg, The Boris Eifman Dance Academy

DATES:

June 30 - July 20, 2025

COURSES:

Choreography Laboratory
| Performance Laboratory

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CHOREO GRAPHY SESSION

TOPIC OF THE PROJECT:

CREATIVITY UNITES

The major subject of the School was 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:

In 2025, the Boris Eifman Dance Academy hosted Choreography Session of Innopraktika School for the fifth time. Its goal and mission is cultural exchange.

Out of 394 applicants from 55 countries, 15 talented dancers and choreographers from 10 countries were selected. During three weeks of fruitful work, Russian choreographers created unique productions with foreign dancers, and foreign choreographers worked with students of the Dance Academy.

The Choreography Session resulted in a two-day Innopraktika School Festival "Global Values", which took place on the stage of the Eifman Dance Academy Theatre. Participants presented 12 new choreographic productions and a joint dance piece "Unity", staged by a graduate of the 2022 session and now head of the Academy's Modern dance Department Allen Xing.

In addition, the School organized a rich cultural program for the session participants. They visited Peterhof, took a night boat trip, and visited the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where they viewed an exhibition of the final works of the participants of the School's Art Session. The cultural program also included visits to the Hermitage, the Mariinsky, and the Mikhailovsky Theaters.

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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.