Classical Ballet Grand Prix of the Mikhailovsky Theatre Mikhailovsky Classical Ballet and Opera Theatre (established 1833)
Schedule for Grand Prix of the Mikhailovsky Theatre 2022
Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky Composer: Cesare Pugni Choreography: Lev Ivanov
Orchestra: Mikhailovsky Symphony Orchestra
Charity Project
Starring - Oksana Bondareva,
Ekaterina Borchenko, Olesya Novikova, Natalia Osipova,
Ivan Vasiliev, Victor Lebedev, Denis Matvienko,
Leonid Sarafanov
The Mikhailovsky
Theatre Grand Prix will take place on 21 and 22 November, and
among those taking part, by tradition, will be pupils from the
Vaganova Ballet Academy. Participation in the Grand Prix is one
of the most important stages in the preparations for
a significant date: in May 2013 the Vaganova Ballet Academy will
celebrate its 275th anniversary. There will be special concerts in St.
Petersburg and Moscow to mark the occasion.
Part I
Grand
Prix’2012 Finale
The Krasnoyarsk State Ballet College The Novosibirsk State Ballet Сollege The Bashkir Ballet Сollege n.a. Rudolf Nureyev
The Perm State Ballet Сollege The Moscow State Ballet Academy The Vaganova Ballet Academy National Ballet College of the Republic
of Moldova
Part II
Ballet Stars Gala
Grand Pas Classique Music: Daniel Auber Choreography: Victor Gzovsky Performed by Olesya Novikova and Leonid
Sarafanov
Diana and
Actaeon Pas de Deux from Esmeralda
Music: Cesare Pugni Choreography: Agrippina Vaganova Performed by Oksana Bondareva and Denis
Matvienko
White
Adagio from Swan Lake Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Choreography: Lev Ivanov Performed by Ekaterina Borchenko and
Victor Lebedev
This year Nacho Duato, who considers his collaboration
with the Ballet Academy to be of fundamental importance, has
offered the students his famous ballet Na Floresta to the music
of Heitor Villa-Lobos. The choreographer often drops into the rehearsal
room himself, but the main work with the final-year students is being
carried out by his assistant Eva Lopez Crevillen and Academy teachers Elena
Poryvkina and Alexey Ilyin.
“This is the second time I have
worked with students from the Academy”, says Eva. “Last autumn we staged Madrigal here. I often work with
students in Spain and France, but Russia has a unique school
of ballet. There is such a strong teaching tradition here: pupils
demonstrate excellent technique from a very early age and have beautiful
proportions. Now we are rehearsing Na Floresta — literally step
by step. I already know some of the students from Madrigal, but even those who are dancing
Nacho Duato’s choreography for the first time are very receptive. When Nacho was
teaching us, he always tried to immerse us in the
action, using metaphors, and saying things like ‘Look at that tree’,
so that we could feel the atmosphere of the ballet better.
I try to work in the same way: those imaginary pictures make
it easier to capture the spirit of the music, to move your
body in accordance with it, and become part of a beautiful
production”.
The success of Madrigal at last year’s Grand Prix
is still fresh in the minds of ballet fans. Kommersant wrote
at the time: “The main surprise of the festival was the performance
by the students from the Russian Ballet Academy, who danced Madrigal to the music of Joaquin
Rodrigo in an ‘out of competition’ production. It is easy
to discern Duato’s typical methods in Madrigal: the virtuoso combination
of rhythms and plastique elements, the instantaneous changing
of angles and poses, the swiftness of movement, and the long drawn-out
adagios, which appear to be in slow motion. The 20-minute ballet enjoyed extraordinary
and very noisy success.”
Collaborating with the Artistic Director
of the Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet is a source of special
pride for People’s Artist of Russia Altynai Asylmuratova, the Artistic
Director of the Vaganova Ballet Academy:
"We are very glad of this
opportunity: we are not only trying to master Nacho Duato’s
choreography — we are doing it with delight. But our
participation in the Grand Prix is not confined to Na Floresta. We will
be staging several other performances, including a trio choreographed
by one of our students, Maxim Silagin, who is only 14.
I think he is very talented — one of those rare people
who can ‘see music’ as Nacho Duato can ‘see’ it, or as another
graduate of our school was once able to do — Georgy
Balanchivadze, whom the whole world knows as George Balanchine.
Incidentally, his first experiments in choreography also took place while
he was still at school. In the last academic year Maxim staged
10 works — he composed the trio after the summer. He does
everything himself: he chooses the music, conceives the costumes, and takes
the rehearsals. We try to support this creative inclination,
and I think that in this sense, his participation in the
Mikhailovsky Theatre Grand Prix will be very important for him.
Grand Prix of the Mikhailovsky Theatre
19.11, 20.11, 21.11
The Charity Project From the 19nd to the 21th November 2010, the
Mikhailovsky Theatre Grand Prix — an annual showcase of students
from Russia’s leading ballet schools — will take place for the second time.
This charitable project organized by the Mikhailovsky Theatre first
took place in 2009. The main peculiarity of the Grand Prix was that
the cash prizes were awarded not only to the winners, but also to the
schools participating in the contest — the Vaganova Academy
of Russian Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and the Novosibirsk State
Choreographic College.
This autumn, the young pupils of Russia’s
leading ballet schools will take to the stage of the Mikhailovsky
Theatre once more to show the fruits of both their and their tutors’
labours.
The jury will be led by the world renowned
choreographer Roland Petit. In the framework of the Grand Prix two
one-act ballets by Jiri Kylian La Petite mort and Six
Dances will be premiered by the Ballet Company of the Moscow
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre.
Schedule for Grand Prix of the Mikhailovsky Theatre 2022
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