CREATIVITY UNITES: PRESERVING GLOBAL VALUES
The major subject of the School is the value selection between the internal own values and what affects a man from the outside, such as mass media, Internet, and common stereotypes. How does a modern man pass through such value conflict? What contradictory values do people face? What value dilemmas do they solve? How to save global values and avoid instantaneous influences?
Participants will have to reflect the struggle inside a modern man between eternal true global principles and aggressively imposed inane temptations of the modern world.
Three weeks filled with an effective program:
Classical Russian ballet lessons - 20 h
Contemporary dance technique - 20 h
Hours of rehearsals - 45 h
For the second year, the choreographic session with the support of the Innopraktika Foundation will be held at The Boris Eifman Dance Academy. The purpose and mission of the session are cultural exchange. 4 foreign choreographers and 11 foreign dancers come to the Academy to practice classical and contemporary dance. Also, for three weeks, foreign dancers work with Russian choreographers, at the same time, foreign choreographers stage their choreography on the students of the Academy. Academy students are dancers 16-18 years old professionally trained in classical and contemporary dance. This year, 16 students of the Academy and two professional artists from the Boris Eifman Ballet Theater will be involved.
For the final performances at the end, we will invite a lighting and media designer. Also, the Academy provides the staging with costumes and props. Purchases of costumes are discussed individually. It could be completely professional performances with the use of stage machinery, make-up artists, etc. The festival will take place in two cities: one performance in St.Petersburg and three performances in Sevastopol.
Furthermore, Foundation prepares a rich cultural program: visits to ballet theatres in St.Petersburg, exhibitions and museums. The entire program is completely free for participants.
Graduated from the Belarusian State Choreographic School (class of V. Glinskikh). In 1997, he was a guest soloist with the Los Angeles Ballet. In 2011, at the ChateletTheater in Paris, he performed the main role of the mime and became the author of the choreographic text in the stage version of Georg Friedrich Handel’s oratorio “Messiah”. From 2001 to 2013, Andrey was a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre with roles in the ballets “Giselle”, “La Bayadère”, “The Swan Lake”, “Don Quixote”, “PolovtsianDances”, and other famous performances. He has toured with the Mariinsky Theatre troupe in Europe, Asia and America. Since June 2013, he has been a leading dancer and teacher-repetiteur of the ballet troupe of the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre (Vladivostok).
Andrey Ivanov is the Laureate of the Open competition of ballet dancers “Arabesque-1990”, the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki, the International Ballet Competition in Varna and the International Ballet Competition named after. Serge Lifar in Kyiv.
After graduating from the ChoreographyDepartment ofthe Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences,majoring in choreography and ballet master, Alexander Chelidze danced in the choreographic company of Sasha Kukin. Alexander is a frequent participant of international choreographic festivals and projects. He practiced modern choreography with Vladimir Varnava, Maksim Didenko, Nanine Linning and other outstanding choreographers.
Graduated from theVaganova Russian Ballet Academy, an outstanding choreographer, and the founder and choreographer of the VASILEVADANCECO project. Olga was awarded the Grand Prix at the contest for young choreographers “CONTEXT. Diana Vishneva” and won two nominations for the Russian National Theatre Award “Golden Mask”. She completed a “Maslool– Professional Dance Program” internship in Tel Aviv and is a member of the Laboratories for Young Choreographers at the Mariinsky Theatre.
She choreographed a production of “WE” (on the novel byEvgenyZamyatin to music by Alexander Karpov) in the Voronezh Chamber Theatre. Her production of “The Room” was presented on the Holland Dance Festival.
He received the choreographic education at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet under the direction of N. I. Kovmir and B. Y. Eifman. Now he is not only a ballet dancer but also a ballet master, choreographer, and since 2016, he has been teaching at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy.
Sergey’s repertoire includes solo roles in the ballets “Don Quixote”, “Requiem”,“Pinocchio”, “The Marriage of Figaro”, “Tchaikovsky”, “The Brothers Karamazov”. Thanks to the choreographer’s work, B. Y. Eifman’s performances were performed in Kazakhstan and Uruguay.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy, after which he worked on productions in many theatres, including the Estonian Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet and the Mariinsky Theatre.
Konstantin won the 2nd prize at the International Festival of Modern Choreography in Vitebsk in 2012, the prize for the best choreography performance at the All-Russian Competition of Ballet Dancers and Choreographers, as well as the award of the Ekaterina Maximova ballet competition “Arabesque 2016”.
BalázsBaranyaiis a Hungarian-born choreographer. He graduated with honors from the Dance Art School of Pécs and the Hungarian Dance Art Academy. Balázs has collaborated with best dance companies, including Opera de Lyon and Ballet d’Europe, as well as renowned choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, and AngelinPreljocaj. His career in Russia began with productions at the Ekaterinburg Dance Theatre, and now the choreographer works on the immersive shows “Faceless” and “Letters”, teaches at the Boris EifmanDanceAcademy, and collaborates with the company of the Boris Eifman Academic Ballet Theatre.
BalazsBaranyai is the winner of many Hungarian and international contemporary dance competitions.
Graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov as a choreographer-director, after that he interned as a guest at the Ballett am RheinTheater (Dusseldorf, Germany). At that time, Ernest won the special prize of the jury of the Tallinn International Ballet Competition, and in 2020 he also won the award of the “CONTEXT. Diana Vishneva” festival.
He works with many of the country’s theatres and participates in national and international festivals, competitions and creative projects as a jury member, teacher and choreographer. Also, Ernest became the founder of the Nurgali Dance Company.
Adrián Marcelo Sáenz is a Mexican dancer and choreographer graduated from Cuba’s NationalBallet School "Fernando Alonso". He has danced throughout Europe, the United States, and Latin America and is currently a dancer with State Opera Stara Zagora in Bulgaria. He has been the director and producer of performances in Mexico and Cuba. Marcelo is a bronze and silver medalist in Havana's International Choreographic Competition. His choreography “UnaCondición" was a choreographic selection for the International Arts Festival of the Institute of Superior Arts in Havana in 2018. He has choreographed and developed multiple pieces for Barcelona City Ballet’s repertoire. In Bulgaria, Marcelo has created pieces for State Opera Stara Zagora and Varna, as well as for productions and festivals on different platforms throughout the country; currently, he is working on a complete ballet with a live orchestra for StateOperaStara Zagora, premiering in Summer 2022
Allen Chunhui Xing is a dancer and choreographer based in Maryland, USA. He holds a BFA in dance from Shanxi Academy of Arts, an M.Ed. from Salisbury University, and an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland. He currently is the Artistic Director of Xing Dance Theater and City Dance Festival. He is a former member of Huajin Dance Drama Ensemble (China) and performed in the production Forbidden Fruit Under the Great Wall which toured internationally from 2007-2011. Rapture as a performer by PearsonWidrig Dance Theater 2015; A Man's Requiem as a soloist by Korea Busan Metropolitan Dance Company 2018, 2022; Casita as a performer at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival by Priore Dance 2018.
In 2010 Babacar Mané made his debut as a dancer-performer in the urban environment by integrating different local hip-hop groups. A few years later, he decided to deepen his knowledge in dance, and research the traditional dances of West Africa and other techniques such as Modern, classical, jazz, and contemporary, rubbing shoulders with choreographers and participating in professional training. In 2015, after training in urban dance, he created JE, TU, ILS, a first solo performance highly acclaimed on the Senegalese national scene and a finalist in the “Simply the Best” competition, organized by choreographer Serge AiméCoulibaly in Burkina Faso. He joined the National School of Arts of Senegal the following year, graduated, and broadened his horizons to contemporary, modern, classical, and traditional East African dances. In 2020 he created his second piece, BETWEEN 2 JEUX, which is the winner of the “Visa pour la creation” program piloted by the French Institute. Wanting to advance his dance career further, Babacar Mané also performed alongside 37 other dancers from fourteen African countries in the Rite of Spring (2021) by Pina Bausch – an international and historical project co-produced by the Pina Bausch Foundation in Germany, Sadler’s Wells in London, and École des Sables in Senegal. The variations of human relations are at the center of Babacar Mane’s research, and his dance, which he qualifies as fluid and animal, draws some of its materials or energies from observing nature, reality, alliances, and solidarity of living. He also organizes a festival, “My shadow in the streets of Dakar,” a program of shows and professional training courses for young Senegalese dancers. In the creation process, a participatory performance bearing the same name as this festival - and driven by Babacar Mané - brings together dancers of different nationalities to exchange their know-how and their culture.
As a 3-year-old child, she had her first performance on TV... Now 15 years later, she is still dancing and making that little child's dreams come true. She started with her first love - Hip Hop dance. More than 100 competitions in countries worldwide, Poland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Slovenia, Croatia and many more, 60 medals, being 5th in the world, and more than 5 times a national champion... But she has gained more than that experience: friendships, freedom, discipline, hard work, and self-confidence. She is now implementing these values in her second and biggest love - Classical ballet. Ten years later since she was introduced to ballet, she is now a graduate of the Macedonian state ballet school and already dancing along with the Macedonian National Opera and Ballet in the repertoire such as The Nutcracker (In the role of little Clara), Swan Lake, Cleopatra, Esmeralda, Paquita, Peter Pan... Also, she has participated in many prestigious ballet competitions from all over the world and worked with teachers and choreographers, which helped her form as a dancer: Yulia Kasenkova, Iana Salenko, Stanislav Feco, Vasily Medvedev, Tatiana Linnik, Igor Kirov, Aleksandr Omar, Denis Until and others. The most significant achievement she is most proud of is the Vaganova Academy Summer Intensive, where she has genuinely discovered how much she can do and what she has. Also she has always had a strong passion for modern ballet and character dance, acting, and singing. And that's her, a musical in a human being.
Daniela has been performing at the international level since 2005. At age six, she started her vocational training in the Jaguse Vrankova Academy based on Vaganova Method. During these years, she was a student of Viktor Litvinov and Irina Syrova, masters of Bolshoi Academy, and Gary Norman, ex-soloist of Australian Ballet. During the summer, she trained with Atelier Rudra Béjart in Lausanne, Switzerland, before attending the Ukrainian Academy of Dance, directed by E. Scepaciov, who invited her to his school. In 1998 she participated in the Baia Sardinia Festival and Olbia Dance Festival where she was noticed by Sabrina Massignani, director of Venezia Balletto. After her degree, she received a bursary from Florence Dance Center to continue her professional studies, extending her knowledge through the Cecchetti method. In 2005 she joined Balletto di Milano directed by Carlo Pesta, as Corps de Ballet. During her career, she worked for Venezia Balletto until 2013 and trained with Nederlands Dance Theater, Compañia National de Dança in Madrid, Ballet de Monaco Montecarlo, Angélina Preljocaj's Company, Dv8 Company, Random Dance directed by Wayne McGregor, Jose Agudo and Akhram Khan Company. In 2013 she was part of Lustrum, a project of Gary Clark Company, where she performed as a soloist at the London Brilliant Fashion Gala. Last year she worked for Maria Gaetanidi Company with a solo for Manon and the Mariinsky Company in Cardiff during their international tour. Currently, Daniela works in London and is a registered teacher at The Royal Academy of Dance: She teaches Syllabus grades for Children and free ballet classes for performers and pre-professional students. In 2019 she performed with English National Ballet in Cinderella and Swan Lake and collaborated with Helen Robertson and the Central Saint Martins and Camberwell College of Arts. At the moment, Daniela is a Choreographer and Movement Director internationally renowned for her innovations in performance that have redefined the traditional structure of ballet and the role of the spectatorship in a live performance. Driven by an insatiable curiosity about movement and its potential, her experiments have led her into collaborative dialogue with different art forms such as architecture, light design, urban design, and textile design. In 2017 she attended the Biennale Danza with her first project, We Are Raw Material. During these years, she develops a creative practice that explores the connection of mental memory images with improvisation movement language. She collaborated with the artist Maria Gaetanidi, artistic director of Anatoli Vassiliev Theatre, to create a new methodology that explores the relationship between experiences and movement. In March 2018, she continued in her laboratory for ambitious and experimental choreography with the projects Zones of Restriction performed in the Modern Art Gallery in Milan, Italy. She started a new challenging collaboration with the Pinuccio Sciola Museum in Sardinia. Since 2018, she has been a resident choreographer at Accademia Nazionale di Roma, Żfin Malta, and Tanz Company Gervasi, where she explores important and innovative themes such as the impact of new technologies on human behavior. Her creative engine stimulates her lifelong choreographic inquiry into thinking through and with the body. Last year, she attended an MFA Choreography with the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is a member of the Free Space Programme of Studio of Wayne McGregor. At the moment, Daniela is part of the resident choreographers for SPAZIO S’ALA per Artisti, Sardinia, in Italy. She is developing her creative practice in collaboration with Igor and Moreno, senior choreographers of The Place in London.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he graduated from Taller de Danza Contemporanea del Teatro San Martin in 2018. Since 2017 he has worked alongside Argentinian teacher, director, and choreographer Laura Roatta (TANGO “DEL PLATA” choreographer for Igor Moiseyev Ballet) as a dancer, choreographic assistant, and teaching Jazz classes and dance workshops around Argentina. In 2019 worked with Mauricio Wainrot in “El Mesias". Later that year, Facundo was invited by Mexican choreographer Laura Vera to dance and co-create "Opus 19 Luminiscencia ‘El Olvidoestálleno de Memoria’” presented in Queretaro, Mexico, where he also taught a Master Class. In 2022 he was awarded a full scholarship at the “Men Who Dance” Festival to represent Argentina in Miami, USA. Since 2009 Facundo has worked with numerous national and international teachers and choreographers such as Sabrina Wehner, Chet Walker, Laura Vera, Yoshua Cienfuegos, Mauricio Wainrot, Shannon Lewis, and Giorgio Azzone, among others. He also teaches Jazz and Flying Low classes at Taller de Danza Contemporanea del Teatro San Martin and teaches in different dance studios in Buenos Aires.
Gabriela Cárdenas is an integral artist from Venezuela. She works mainly as a performer of contemporary dance; also she has experience as an actress and circus performer. Her education ranges from academic to experimental spaces. She has participated as a dancer in Venezuela, Colombia and Costa Rica festivals. She has a particular interest in health and education. She is currently a thesis student for the degree in Contemporary Dance at the National Experimental University of the Arts (Unearte). In addition to this, as Executive Director of Fundabancoex, she supports and promotes the production of cultural property from Venezuela for export.
Harshil Shah lives in Ahmedabad, India. He has pursued his Dance Education for 1 year (Diploma in dance foundation course) at Terence Lewis Professional training institute and has earned a Diploma in Dance from Moksha Art Space. He has performed several shows and dance productions under renowned national and international dance teachers across cities and at dance festivals. He wants to build on storytelling through the incorporation of conceptualized dance and has also been working on creating his own movement method. He wants to change India's perspective on how dance, contemporary movement, and art are perceived. Visiting St. Petersburg for the IRSS Performance lab is a stepping stone to enhancing his dance vocabulary to excel in the Performing arts.
Ivana Balabanova is a dancer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist from Skopje, North Macedonia. Her experience is broad in both the aspects of creation and cultural management. As an artist who not rarely and courageously explores the possibilities with the team, space, and art forms, always creating strong visuals for the audience, sometimes with the act and bodies of the dancers, and sometimes helped by technology. She is the choreographer of: "Rising" - 2013 (Dance Fest, Skopje), "Pieces" (The rooftop of the building"MakedonskaFalanga", 2016), "Silence" - (National Ballet, 2018),"Ether" - Audiovisual performance (YCC, 2019), "Apoptosis" - (YCC, 2019), "Her own space" - with the composer Alessandro Olla (Dance Fest, 2020/Platform 14, Berlin,2021), "The Conversation Chair" - choreodrama (YCC, 2021), “RAW” – interdisciplinary performance (Beatrix Dance League and YCC,2021/Pogon, Zagreb, 2022), “Code #9” –with Alessandro Olla (Pogon, Zagreb, 2022). Starting next year, she will continue her Master in Choreography at the ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts. Meanwhile, she is working on developing new pieces with her colleagues.
Karmia’s passion for ballet has been ignited since she was 6 years old when she trained in The Royal Academy of Dance syllabus. Karmia also trained in Spanish and contemporary dancing. In 2013, at age 17, Karmia switched to the Vaganova ballet method. She loved how ballet was explained and understood better how the body worked to help her perform at a higher standard. As part of cultural exchange programs, Karmia was invited to train in the Vaganova method in Latvia in 2013, in Miami in 2015 at the Vladimir Issaev School of Classical Ballet, Kazakhstan in 2017 at the Almaty Choreographic School, and Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 2018. In 2017, she started training at the Russian School of Ballet in South Africa. Her most treasured of many achievements include: Qualifying for the finals in Spanish Folk Dancing at an international ballet competition in Kazakhstan (2016) and placing in the top 10 in the International Dance Talent competition Italy 2021. Karmia started as an assistant teacher in 2018 and is now successfully teaching junior students. Alongside training and teaching ballet, Karmia is completing her BCom Financial Accounting degree at the University of South Africa.
Marinette's ballet journey started at 8 with the Arabesque Dance Academe. She later joined Lisa Macuja's School of Ballet in Manila, where she became an apprentice at 16 with Ballet Manila. Through hard work and perseverance, she was promoted to a full-time company member at 18. Since then, she has taken part in full-length classical repertoires and has done numerous choreographies for neo-classical and contemporary pieces. Marinette has competed locally and internationally; in the 2014 and 2016 CCP Ballet Competition in the Philippines and landed as a finalist in the Asian Grand Prix in Hong Kong last 2015 and 2017. Marinette has performed in several countries: Israel, China, Vietnam, and Russia, along with the Ballet Manila dancers.
Mukta is a professional contemporary dancer from India, training, and teaching across the country for about a decade. With her inclination toward technique and extensions, she has pursued ballet and jazz styles with equal dedication and passion. Mukta has always found herself curious about understanding different cultures and behaviors, which led her to complete a bachelor's degree in Psychology and History in 2017. Dance is an incredible nonverbal medium for communicating and connecting with people despite language barriers. She has co-created an online training program to teach new dancers about contemporary movement and body awareness. She aims to establish her own company one day to promote formal dance education in India. This performance opportunity is a stepping stone for her to experience an international stage and explore and interact with dancers from different countries and backgrounds.
Óscar Cuéllar is a contemporary dancer, choreographer and teacher born in Caracas. He studied dance at the Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes in Venezuela. With the National Dance Company of that country, he has performed in numerous theaters of large-scale dance pieces of national and international production. He was invited to participate in Innopraktika and the Russian Season School in July 2022. Being a millennial,he has identified his work with new technologies and the most avant-garde trends in interactive dance worldwide. He has been a soloist performer for independent postmodern and butoh dance companies such as EspacioAlternó and Thot Danzabutoh. In addition to dance, Oscar studied plastic arts, which allowed him to become more integrally involved with artistic creation, applying it in his role as a teacher at the Fredy Reyna ballet and music school of the Caracas mayor's office. His training has led him to embed in the aerial circus elements of vertical dance and movement in suspension, hence his work with harness and straps. He has more than 50 jumps, some of them 30 meters high.
Rebecca Rudolf has just graduated from the “FloriaCapsali” Choreography High School in Bucharest. She is the winner of First Place at the Youth America Grand Prix Barcelona 2018 and a Finalist at YAGP New York 2018, in which she received many scholarships at the most important ballet schools in the world. She chose to study for a year at the Paris Opera School and was later accepted to the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg. This year she won 2nd place at the National Ballet Olympics in Romania and was invited to dance on the stage of the Bucharest National Opera and Operetta Theatre “Ion Dacian”. To enrich their knowledge and experience greater opportunities, since 2017, she has trained intensively with world-class teachers in the summer and winter workshops Revolve Dance in Bucharest, Russian Master Ballet camp, Ballet Heritage & Biarritz summer intensive. With a unique body and charming presence, Rebecca simultaneously manages to reach the public's hearts through strength and elegance. She combines the aesthetics and virtuosity of ballet technique with knowledge of character, historical, neoclassical or contemporary dance. Now she's ready for new challenges!
Stacey began her professional training at the Singapore Dance Theatre, where she was invited to perform productions with the Singapore Dance Theatre Company, including The Sleeping Beauty, Ballet Under The Stars, and The Nutcracker Productions at the Esplanade Theatre. After that, she moved to the United Kingdom and had her dance training and education with London Studio Centre and Ballet West Scotland, where she was awarded the Degree of Bachelor Of Arts with Honours in Dance. During her journey in the United Kingdom, she danced with Ballet West Scotland Company in The Nutcracker's full-length ballet tours around Scotland, Ballet West Scotland's Contemporary performances, and in London Studio Centre's Dance Overture Neo-Classical Ballet. She also represented London Studio Centre with a choreographed Modern Contemporary piece, where she was shortlisted and awarded semi-finalist in the International Film Festival Screen Dance Competition. Throughout her dance journey, she participated in international competitions, including Domenico Modugno International Ballet and Contemporary Dance Competition, Malaysia Ballet Competition, Vienna International Ballet and Modern Dance Competition, United Kingdom International Stars Competition, Hong Kong Cup Challenge Dance Competition, and United Kingdom Dance Star World Competition, where she was awarded finalist, as well as from 1st to 4th places. One highlight of her journey was being selected for Maryland Youth Ballet, Northern Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, and Palucca Hochschule fur Tanz Dresden Summer Programs. She also performed professionally in both Classical Ballet and Contemporary dance. Some of her performances around Europe and Asia include Mystic Ballet Company's Contemporary, Europaballett’s Productions, Balletto di Verona's Paquita, and Asia Pacific Festival.