Choreography Session 2021

LOCATION:

Russia, St. Petersburg, Boris Eifman Dance Academy Russia, Sevastopol, Sevastopol Academic Russian Drama Theater named after A.V. Lunacharsky

DATES:

July 1 - July 20, 2021 July 23 – July 25, 2021

COURSES:

Сhoreographic and Performance laboratory

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CHOREO GRAPHY SESSION

TOPIC OF PROJECT: «CREATIVITY UNITES»

The idea of the project was to choose between inner personal values and those affected by the external aspects, such as the media, the Internet and social stereotypes.

How to deal with values conflict in modern world? What kind of controversial values do people face? What are the moral dilemmas they solve?

SESSION PROGRAM:

The first part involved getting acquainted with Russian culture. This part includes lectures, excursions and special activities in a talk arrangement aimed to reflect on cultural immersion. The second part includes the curriculum consisting of intensive courses and master classes.

The final work was the joint participants’ performance of the School and students of the Academy. It was be performed in the framework of the Global Values Festival in Sevastopol.

2021

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.

EXPERT COUNCIL

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.