31 March 2021 (Wed), 19:30 World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - Mariinsky II (New Theatre) - Stars of the Stars Modern Ballet Evening of Contemporary Choreography: Symphony in Three Movements. Russian dead ends–II. At the wrong time
Schedule for Evening of Contemporary Choreography: Symphony in Three Movements. Russian dead ends–II. At the wrong time 2022
Dancer: Nadezhda Gonchar Dancer: Maxim Zyuzin Dancer: Tatiana Tkachenko Dancer: Alexandra Iosifidi Dancer: Daria Ustyuzhanina
Composer: Igor Stravinsky Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos Choreography: Radu Poklitaru Choreography: Aleksander Sergeev Choreography: Nastasya Khrushcheva Composer: Nastasia Khrushcheva
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra Ballet company: Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet
Symphony in Three Movements
CREDITS Music by Igor Stravinsky Choreography by Radu Poklitaru Set and Costume Designer: Anna Matison Lighting Designer: Alexander Sivaev Video Graphics Designer: Alexander Kravchenko Assistant Choreographer: Sergei Kon
Using a symphony in ballet is a 20th century innovation. The impulse for the worldwide dissemination of the genre of the dance symphony came with a production by Fyodor Lopukhov in Petrograd in 1923 with a ballet set to the music of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. George Balanchine, who took part in that avant-garde production, took up the idea of the plastique interpretation of the complex musical format, developing his artistic credo as a choreographer thus: “You see the music and you hear the dance.” Inspired by the nature of pure dance he rejected any plot and superfluous psychology, behind his movements there were no human passions, there was just the music, its rhythm and structure defining the development of the choreographic image. Following the same lines, in 1972 Balanchine created his first dance version of the score of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements. And yet there was another path in the emergence of symphonic dance. In the 1930s the choreographer Léonide Massine brought to life a whole series of symphonic ballets in which, avoiding fairy-tale narrative in a sequence of allegories and metaphors he narrated dance stories. The path chosen by Radu Poklitaru for his production of Symphony in Three Movements at the Mariinsky Theatre is close to Massine’s. In his production one can see a plot with a beginning, peripeteia and dénouement. The images conceived by the choreographer blend together with Stravinsky’s idea: the composer admitted that the third movement of his Symphony was a response to documental chronologies of the war years with lines of marching soldiers, and later with Poklitaru, it would seem, the troops come on-stage in the finale, without succumbing to the aggression of the first two movements...
Olga Makarova
Premiere: 30 December 2015, Mariinsky Theatre
Russian dead ends–II
CREDITS Music by Nastasya Khrushcheva Choreography by Maxim Petrov Costume Designer: Elena Trubetskova Lighting Designer: Anton Nikolaev Texts written by Nastasya Khrushcheva and Maxim Petrov
Premiere: 17 March 2020, Mariinsky Theatre (as a part of the project A Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers)
Running time: 30 minutes
Age category 6+
At the wrong time
CREDITS Music by Heitor Villa-Lobos Choreography by Alexander Sergeev Costumes Designer: Daria Pavlenko Lighting Designer: Konstantin Binkin Lighting Adaptation for the Concert Hall by Anton Nikolaev
Premiere: 26 March 2019, Mariinsky Theatre (as a part of the project A Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers)
Running time: 15 minutes
Age category 6+
Schedule for Evening of Contemporary Choreography: Symphony in Three Movements. Russian dead ends–II. At the wrong time 2022
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