August 22, 9 PM
SOLD OUT!
On 22 August, a unique Context. Diana Vishneva festival programme, created specifically for New Holland Island, will be held on the Bottle House courtyard’s round stage. The programme will include productions and premiers by Konsantin Keikhel, Olga Vasilieva and Anastasia Kadruleva, Olga Timoshenko, Alexey Kononov, Ernest Nurgali (participant of the last year’s Mind and Movement project), Olga Labovkina, Anna Shchekleynaya, Dor Mamalia and Dariush Novak in collaboration with Vladimir Varnava.
The evening will culminate with a solo performance by Diana Vishneva from the ballet Switch, a show created by the celebrated French choreographer and director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Jean-Christophe Maillot, and based on music by the famous American composer and Oscar laureate Danny Elfman, whose work features in all of Tim Burton’s movies and animated films, as well as in The Simpsons, the Mission Impossible and Men in Black franchises, Wanted, and much more besides.
The program starts at 21:00. Tickets cost 2500 rubles, and are on sale at the New Holland Infocenter or online (service fee applies). Places are limited.
Program:
Punch
Choreographer: Ernest Nurgali (St. Petersburg)
Duration 8 minutes
Music: Biosphere
Performers: Nurgali Dance Company — Ildar Sokolov, Zarina Gallyamova, Evgeny Ganeev
The Whisper of the Waves
Choreographer: Olga Vasilyeva (St. Petersburg), Anastasia Kadruleva (Moscow).
Duration 11 minutes
Music: Dmitry Anikin — Resequence
Performers: Olga Vasilyeva, Anastasia Kadruleva.
Ave Ever
Choreographer: Anna Shchekleina (Ekaterinburg)
Duration 10 minutes
Music: Giulio Caccini — Ave Maria performed by Irina Bogacheva
Performers: Evgenia Turushkina, Alexander Frolov
Body and Soul
Choreographer: Alexey Kononov (St. Petersburg)
Duration 6 minutes
Music: Alfred Schnittke — Piano Quintet In Tempo di Valse (1976), op.108
Performers: Anastasia Lukina, Konstantin Zverev (Mariinsky Theater)
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Choreographer: Olga Labovkina (Minsk)
Duration 17 minutes
Music: Sergey Novitsky. Compilation — Olga Labovkina
Performers: Oleg Melnikov, Nikita Lenin, Vitaly Kuznetsov, Diana Kupreishvili, Maria Tsvetkova, Marina Baranova.
The artwork was created specifically for the Context. Diana Vishneva festival in collaboration with the Doroga Iz Goroda dance theater (Kazan).
The work uses excerpts from the performance ‘Dangerous Corner’, based on the play by J. Priestley, staged at the Leningrad Academic Comedy Theater. Recorded 1956
Sphere
Choreographer: Konstantin Keyhel (St. Petersburg)
Duration 6 minutes
Music: Lisa Moore — My lips speaking
Performers: Konstantin Keyhel, Andrey Ostapenko
Along the other
Choreographer: Olga Timoshenko (Moscow)
Duration 6 minutes
Music: Mogwai — Coolverine
Performers: Olga Timoshenko, Alexey Narutto
Wood Rabbit
Concept and choreography: Dor Mamalia (Israel) and Dariusz Nowak (Poland)
Co-creator: Vladimir Varnava (Russia)
Rehearsal director: Niv Marinberg
Duration 12 minutes
Music: Sergey Rachmaninov, Fantasy Pieces for Piano, op. 3: no. 1, Elegy performed by Konstantin Shcherbakov, Janis Joplin — Little Girl Blue
Performers: Vladimir Varnava, Dor Mamalia (Israel), Dariusz Nowak (Poland).
The production team wishes to thank NOD (Torino) and Silvana Ranadu.
Fragment from the Switch
Choreography: Jean-Christophe Mayo (Monaco)
Duration 6 minutes
Music: Danny Elfman
Scenographer: Alan Lagarde
Costume Designers: Jean-Christophe Mayo, Jean-Michel Len
Lighting Designer: Samuel Teri
Performed by Diana Vishneva
World Premiere: November 6, 2013, Segerstrom Arts Center, California
Premiere in Russia: March 27, 2014, The Bolshoi Theater New Stage, Moscow
