2021. St.Petersburg
Contemporary ballet to music by DeBussy commissioned by MusicAeterna and Radio House, conducted by Theodor Currentzis.
A fleeting story of a mythical deity's passion for a beautiful nymph. A break with classical tradition. A new vision of dance built on frontal and profile poses borrowed from the figures of ancient Greek vase painting. There is no more dancing, no more jumping, nothing but postures and gestures of semi-conscious animalism. "The faun is me," replied Vaslav Nijinsky laconically to the crowd. "Nymphs are me" and my choreographic answer to Vaslav Nijinsky.
Nymph - 6 dancers united into a single body, a single entity through choreography, costumes and performative practices. Half goddess half insect half nymph half animal; this being is constantly flowing from one emotional state to another. I am interested in this flickering, absolute mobility from the infinitely beautiful nymph essence to the surrealistically terrifying. It draws the viewer in and seduces him or her, or repels him or her with its animal, inhuman otherworldliness.
The choreography is based on the law of the 2D image. The upper part of the body is isolated from the lower part and turned towards the viewer to create the effect of ancient Greek vase painting. The lower part of the body is static, the dancers' legs are fixed in special shoes that allow them to break the laws of gravity. The choreography is based on strong deviations of the entire body forward and backward. The hands and their dance remind us of the constant movement from the nymph's inordinate beauty to the insect's frightening size.
Aritistic team
Choreographer - Olga Tsvetkova
Composer - Claude Debussy
Conductor - Teodor Currentzis
Costume designer – Sergey Illarionov
Lighting - Alexander Krasnolutsky
Producer - Katya Karlysheva
Technical director - Alexander Pushkin
Dancers – Tatiana Chizhikova, Valentina Lutsenko, Elena Churilova, Irina Poskorkova, Kseniya Sairento, Viktoriya Maksakova and Alexey Kirsanov.
Production by Dom Radio and musicAeterna orchestra
Contemporary ballet to music by DeBussy commissioned by MusicAeterna and Radio House, conducted by Theodor Currentzis.
A fleeting story of a mythical deity's passion for a beautiful nymph. A break with classical tradition. A new vision of dance built on frontal and profile poses borrowed from the figures of ancient Greek vase painting. There is no more dancing, no more jumping, nothing but postures and gestures of semi-conscious animalism. "The faun is me," replied Vaslav Nijinsky laconically to the crowd. "Nymphs are me" and my choreographic answer to Vaslav Nijinsky.
Nymph - 6 dancers united into a single body, a single entity through choreography, costumes and performative practices. Half goddess half insect half nymph half animal; this being is constantly flowing from one emotional state to another. I am interested in this flickering, absolute mobility from the infinitely beautiful nymph essence to the surrealistically terrifying. It draws the viewer in and seduces him or her, or repels him or her with its animal, inhuman otherworldliness.
The choreography is based on the law of the 2D image. The upper part of the body is isolated from the lower part and turned towards the viewer to create the effect of ancient Greek vase painting. The lower part of the body is static, the dancers' legs are fixed in special shoes that allow them to break the laws of gravity. The choreography is based on strong deviations of the entire body forward and backward. The hands and their dance remind us of the constant movement from the nymph's inordinate beauty to the insect's frightening size.
Aritistic team
Choreographer - Olga Tsvetkova
Composer - Claude Debussy
Conductor - Teodor Currentzis
Costume designer – Sergey Illarionov
Lighting - Alexander Krasnolutsky
Producer - Katya Karlysheva
Technical director - Alexander Pushkin
Dancers – Tatiana Chizhikova, Valentina Lutsenko, Elena Churilova, Irina Poskorkova, Kseniya Sairento, Viktoriya Maksakova and Alexey Kirsanov.
Production by Dom Radio and musicAeterna orchestra
