Public talk with Bogdan Korolyok

«HOFFMANN’S FAIRYTALES»

DLT (4th floor)Bolshaya Konyushennaya Str., 21-23

April 23, 2019

DLT space, the main fashion department store of St. Petersburg and official partner for XVIII season of Dance Open festival, is pleased to announce a public talk — interesting for everyone who loves mystifying stories. This year Dance Open affiche announces two ballets associated with the writer and composer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, famous for his obscure fairytales where the cozy family atmosphere is shattered with a mysterious horror. However, Hoffman’s fairytales are frequently interpreted in much more delightful way. And two Hoffman’s ballets, the Delibes’s Coppélia and Tchaikovsky’s the Nutcracker very little remain of true Hoffman’s language. During all the 20th century choreographers tried to return depth and ambiguity of the literature source to these ballets. It was a real challenge for both musical scores which were arranged in absolute different way: their authors pursued other goals when they undertook to retell these famous fairytales. Bogdan Korolyok, a ballet critic and assistant of the artistic director of Ural Opera Ballet (Ekaterinburg), offers his view and comments on this theme.

Read more: Public talk with Bogdan Korolyok «Hoffmann’s fairytales»

  • Hits: 5594

Lecture by Vita Khlopova

«DUTCH BALLET IN THE 20TH CENTURY»

DLT (4th floor)Bolshaya Konyushennaya Str., 21-23

April 25, 19:00

Explorer of contemporary choreography, creator and curator of the project «No fixed points», Vita Khlopova invited everyone to join her unique lecture in DLT space, the main fashion department store of St. Petersburg and official partner for XVIII season of Dance Open festival. Vita proposed to Petersburg balletomanes to discuss origins of the Dutch ballet art and talk about such personalities as Sonia Gaskell, Rudi van Danzing, Hans van Manen and many others. This lecture represented a unique opportunity to learn how Audrey Hepburn was related to the Dutch ballet and to see extracts from the best productions of the leading Dutch ballet companies: NDT, Het Nationale Ballet, Introdans and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. The significant part of lecture is consecrated to the NDT company, well known for the regular audience of Dance Open festival, and to the choreographers which played an important role in the history of ballet company: from Jiří Kylián to the artistic tandem Paul Lightfoot and Sol León.

Read more: Lecture by Vita Khlopova «Dutch ballet in the 20th century»

  • Hits: 4511

Master class by Diane Matla (Introdans)

«INTRODUCTION TO DANCE»

Schol of the modern dance Bye Bye Ballet 13-Ya Liniya, 70

April 26, 2019

On April 26, Contemporary Dance School Bye Bye Ballet was pleased to announce a master class by one of the best coaches of the Introdans ballet company Diane Matla. This master class offered a unique opportunity to discover the identity of the Dutch masters’ choreography and perform an extract from the Masters programme whose premiere is planned for April, 27 in Alexandrinsky Theater. Introdans is one of the three leading dance brands of the Netherlands and one of the best ballet companies in Europe. Introdans declares its mission to introduce the modern choreography created both by professional masters and young graduates to the largest possible public. The Introdans literally means «introduction to dance». By adhering to the traditions of neoclassical ballet, the company fascinates both classical ballet connoisseurs and modern dance enthusiasts. Every year the dancers give numerous performances in the Netherlands and worldwide. Thus, they increase the number of admirers of the Dutch dance in the world.

Read more: Master class by Diane Matla (Introdans) «Introduction to dance»

  • Hits: 6169

Public talk with Alexey Miroshnichenko

Public-talk

ALEXEY MIROSHNICHENKO

Arts Square Gallery Ital'yanskaya Str., 5

April 20, 2019

On 20 April, Arts Square Gallery introduced a long-awaited meeting with one of the leading Russian choreographers Alexey Miroshnichenko. The ballet master was always notable for his ambitious approach, recognizable style and incredible potential to interpret a broad range of choreographic languages. He collaborated with the Bolshoi and Mariinsky ballet, the Novosibirsk ballet company and New York City Ballet. The world’s leading stages waited for him, but in 2009 Miroshnichenko moved to the banks of the Kama River to head the Perm ballet. The decision supported by his entire professional surrounding (Makhar Vaziev, Leonid Desyatnikov, Polina Osetinskaya, Pavel Gershenzon and Alexei Goribol) was not occasional for Miroshnichenko. Later he remembered: «Probably, it’s my fate. Since the beginning of my studies in the Vaganova Academy, I often heard the name „Perm“. Our veterans remembered the years of evacuation, our ballet masters gave regular master classes in the Perm ballet school, and many graduate students of this school danced on the Mariinsky stage». Among many outstanding productions created in collaboration with the Perm ballet there are such ballets as Swan Lake, Conditionally killed, Chout, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, evenings of ballets Winter Dreams and See the music, ballets The Second Detail, The Wedding, Firebird, Cinderella, Nutcracker ballets, and also the groundbreaking project Romeo and Juliet in collaboration with the Kenneth MacMillan’s Foundation. Under direction of Miroshnichenko, the Perm ballet turned into a worldwide famous national dance brand which attracts balletomanes from all over the world. What the audience would like to ask Alexey Miroshnichenko? Why the author’s versions of classical eternal stories are so attractive and relevant today? Why the Nutcracker? How is it possible to add so many new meanings and new significances to so well-known tales? And how the master succeeds to turn 2D text into 3D reality? How masterpieces are born? And what does it require? It’s difficult to predict all the questions. The moderator Veronika Kulagina, an editor-in-chief of the «PRO Tanez» magazine, has prepared exciting questions to discuss everything and not to miss the most essential.

Read more: Public talk with Alexey Miroshnichenko

  • Hits: 4549

Lecture by Leila Guchmazova «On the other side»

Lecture by Leila Guchmazova

«ON THE OTHER SIDE»

Arts Square Gallery Ital'yanskaya Str., 5

April, 18, 2019

On April 18, a dance critic, observer of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper, expert and jury chairman of the Golden Mask Russian National Theatre Award, Leila Guchmazova invited everyone to join a unique lecture-reflection in the Arts Square Gallery. The art of dance, despite its corporeality, always tended to tell unrealistic stories: myths, fairytales and dreams. Classical tradition has given us many examples. Here a Count and a peasant girl reunite in a spirit world, and there a young Englishman falls asleep and sees in his dream a Pharaoh’s daughter. Or like this: once upon a time a darling Prince arrives at the lakeside to shoot for a while, and there are swans… Dance so succeeded in establishing friendly relations with fantastic world that it almost forgot about its limits: now it is possible to set the first act in a real world and the second in a fictional (Giselle), to insert the scene of a dream into realistic narrative (Don Quixote) and even to erase boundaries between realism and fantasy without even realizing it (Nutcracker). Academic ballet transmitted to modern dance productions this unique tradition to combine fantastic and real world. Dance Open keeps an ear to the ground and this year repertoire includes three ballets — the Nutcracker, Alice and Coppélia — following these trends. On these ballets with its old and new meanings, fine lines between real life and another world is based the core of the interactive lecture. By Leila Guchmazova

Read more: Lecture by Leila Guchmazova «On the other side»

  • Hits: 5587

© 2001-2024
All rights reserved.
Association «Dance Open festival».

Festival Team: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tickets: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Accreditaion and Cooperation: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.