CHOREOGRAPHY SESSION 2022

LOCATION:

Russia, St. Petersburg, Boris Eifman Dance Academy Russia, St. Petersburg, Alexandrinsky Theatre (main stage)

DATES:

July 4 - July 22, 2022
July 23 - July 24, 2022

COURSES:

Choreography Laboratory | Performance Laboratory

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CHOREO GRAPHY SESSION 2022

TOPIC OF THE PROJECT:

CREATIVITY UNITES: PRESERVING GLOBAL VALUES

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:

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 second year, the Choreography session with the support of the Innopraktika Foundation was held at The Boris Eifman Dance Academy. The purpose and mission of the session were cultural exchange. 4 foreign choreographers and 11 foreign dancers came to the Academy to practice classical and contemporary dance. Also, for three weeks, foreign dancers worked with Russian choreographers, at the same time, foreign choreographers staged their choreography on the students of the Academy. Academy students were dancers 16-18 years old professionally trained in classical and contemporary dance. In the year 2022, 16 students of the Academy and two professional artists from the Boris Eifman Ballet Theater were involved.

For the graduation concert at the end of the session a lighting and media designer were invited. Also, the Academy provided the staging with costumes and props. Those were completely professional performances with the use of stage machinery, make-up artists, etc. The beautiful finale of the session was a joint performance of the School participants and students of the Academy. It was performed as part of the II Festival of Innopraktika and Russian Seasons School "Global Values" and took place at renowned historical stage of Alexandrinsky Theater.

Furthermore, the School organized a rich cultural program: the School participants visited ballet theatres in St. Petersburg, exhibitions and museums.

2022

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.

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.

STUDENTS

Daniela has been performing at the international level since 2005. At age six, she started her vocational training in the Jaguse Vrankova Academy based on Vaganova Method. During these years, she was a student of Viktor Litvinov and Irina Syrova, masters of Bolshoi Academy, and Gary Norman, ex-soloist of Australian Ballet. During the summer, she trained with Atelier Rudra Béjart in Lausanne, Switzerland, before attending the Ukrainian Academy of Dance, directed by E. Scepaciov, who invited her to his school. In 1998 she participated in the Baia Sardinia Festival and Olbia Dance Festival where she was noticed by Sabrina Massignani, director of Venezia Balletto. After her degree, she received a bursary from Florence Dance Center to continue her professional studies, extending her knowledge through the Cecchetti method. In 2005 she joined Balletto di Milano directed by Carlo Pesta, as Corps de Ballet. During her career, she worked for Venezia Balletto until 2013 and trained with Nederlands Dance Theater, Compañia National de Dança in Madrid, Ballet de Monaco Montecarlo, Angélina Preljocaj's Company, Dv8 Company, Random Dance directed by Wayne McGregor, Jose Agudo and Akhram Khan Company. In 2013 she was part of Lustrum, a project of Gary Clark Company, where she performed as a soloist at the London Brilliant Fashion Gala. Last year she worked for Maria Gaetanidi Company with a solo for Manon and the Mariinsky Company in Cardiff during their international tour. Currently, Daniela works in London and is a registered teacher at The Royal Academy of Dance: She teaches Syllabus grades for Children and free ballet classes for performers and pre-professional students. In 2019 she performed with English National Ballet in Cinderella and Swan Lake and collaborated with Helen Robertson and the Central Saint Martins and Camberwell College of Arts. At the moment, Daniela is a Choreographer and Movement Director internationally renowned for her innovations in performance that have redefined the traditional structure of ballet and the role of the spectatorship in a live performance. Driven by an insatiable curiosity about movement and its potential, her experiments have led her into collaborative dialogue with different art forms such as architecture, light design, urban design, and textile design. In 2017 she attended the Biennale Danza with her first project, We Are Raw Material. During these years, she develops a creative practice that explores the connection of mental memory images with improvisation movement language. She collaborated with the artist Maria Gaetanidi, artistic director of Anatoli Vassiliev Theatre, to create a new methodology that explores the relationship between experiences and movement. In March 2018, she continued in her laboratory for ambitious and experimental choreography with the projects Zones of Restriction performed in the Modern Art Gallery in Milan, Italy. She started a new challenging collaboration with the Pinuccio Sciola Museum in Sardinia. Since 2018, she has been a resident choreographer at Accademia Nazionale di Roma, Żfin Malta, and Tanz Company Gervasi, where she explores important and innovative themes such as the impact of new technologies on human behavior. Her creative engine stimulates her lifelong choreographic inquiry into thinking through and with the body. Last year, she attended an MFA Choreography with the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is a member of the Free Space Programme of Studio of Wayne McGregor. At the moment, Daniela is part of the resident choreographers for SPAZIO S’ALA per Artisti, Sardinia, in Italy. She is developing her creative practice in collaboration with Igor and Moreno, senior choreographers of The Place in London.

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