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On August 22, the unique Context. Diana Vishneva Festival program, which was created especially for this evening, will be presented on the round stage in the courtyard of the Bottle House building at New Holland Island.
The program will include performances and premieres from young finalist choreographers, and winners of the festival’s Young Choreographers Competition: Constantine Keyhelya, Olga Vasilyeva together with Anastasia Kadrulovoy, Olga Timoshenko, Alexey Kononov, Olga Labovkinoy, Anna Sheklein, Vladimir Varnava together with Dor Mamaliya and Dariusz Nowak, as well as Ernest Nurgali, a participant in Mind and Movement, a joint festival program with Studio Wayne McGregor.
The culmination of the evening will be a solo from the ballet Switch performed by Diana Vishneva. The performance was created by Jean-Christophe Mayo, renowned French choreographer, director of the Monte-Carlo Ballet, to the music of the famous American composer, Oscar winner Danny Elfman, the author of the music for all the films and cartoons from Tim Burton, as well as for the Simpsons cartoon series, the films Mission Impossible, Men in Black, Wanted and many others.
The program starts at 21:00. Tickets cost 2500 rubles and can be purchased at the New Holland Island Info Center. Seats are limited.
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Program:
Hit (Udar)
Choreographer: Ernest Nurgali (St. Petersburg)
Duration 8 minutes
Music: Biosphere
Performers: Nurgali Dance Company — Ildar Sokolov, Zarina Gallyamova, Evgeny Ganeev
Whisper of the Waves (Shepot Voln)
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 (Dusha I Telo)
Choreographer: Alexey Kononov (St. Petersburg)
Duration 6 minutes
Music: Alfred Schnittke — Piano Quintet In Tempo di Valse (1976), op.108
Performers: Arsenyev Andrey, Lukina Anastasia
Let sleeping dogs lie / (Ne Budite Spyashuyu Sobaku)
Choreographer: Olga Labovkina (Minsk)
Duration 17 minutes
Music: Sergey Novitsky
Performers: Oleg Melnikov, Nikita Lenin, Vitaly Kuznetsov, Diana Kupreishvili, Maria Tsvetkova, Marina Baranova.
Work created especially for the festival Context. Diana Vishneva in collaboration with the Road from the city (Doroga iz goroda) dance theater (Kazan). The dance theater directors are Lilia and Ayrat Bagautdinov.
Sphere (Sfera)
Choreographer: Konstantin Keyhel (St. Petersburg)
Duration 6 minutes
Music: COH — Exercise in Color (feat. Ann Demeulemeester)
Performers: Konstantin Keyhel, Andrey Ostapenko
Along the other (Vdol Drugogo)
Choreographer: Olga Timoshenko (Moscow)
Duration 6 minutes
Music: Mogwai — Coolverine
Performers: Olga Timoshenko, Alexey Narutto
Wood rabbit
Choreographer: Vladimir Varnava (St. Petersburg), Dor Mamalia (Israel), Dariusz Nowak (Poland).
Duration 12 minutes
Music: Sergey Rachmaninov, Fantasy Pieces for Piano, Op. 3, Elegy performed by Konstantin Shcherbakov, Janis Joplin — Little Girl Blue
Performers: Vladimir Varnava, Dor Mamalia (Israel), Dariusz Nowak (Poland).
Solo from the Switch
Choreography: Jean-Christophe Mayo
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
Russian premiere: March 27, 2014, New Stage of the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
