| Modern dance festival "Ramp of Moscow" opens today The International Festival of Contemporary Dance will be held at the Taganka Actors' Theater from June 1 to 8. At yesterday's press conference at RIA Novosti, the organizer of the "Moscow Footlights" - artistic director of the "Moscow Chamber Ballet" theater Nikolai Basin - spoke about the festival program and introduced the main characters.
Since the festival is based on his theater, the performances of the Moscow Chamber Ballet open and close the festival week. Today they will dance the already famous "Rite of Spring" by Regis Obadiah, and next Monday the theater will release the premiere - "Othello's Birthday". The performance based on a Shakespearean plot to the music of Prokofiev's Seventh Symphony is staged by this season's triumphant Radu Poklitaru (last December his ballet Romeo and Juliet thundered at the Bolshoi, and Ward No. 6 has just been released there). The festival program includes other performances of the ballet "Moscow", and very different ones: tomorrow they will show the once performed, but then disappeared from the horizon, "Mirror" by the young choreographer Nikita Dmitrievsky - a clear and very beautiful experience of playing with the Kilian tradition (Dmitrievsky interned in the master's troupe a couple of years ago), and towards the end of the festival - Ivan Fadeev's rollicking "Alice", a relative of the show in low-class nightclubs.
In the middle of the festival week it is the territory of foreigners. On Thursday, the wonderful Estonian theater theater Fine 5 will appear with its own version of “The Rite of Spring”; on Friday - the troupe of the venerable Italian Suzanna Egri (the lady is approaching eighty, and she is still interested in modern dance); Saturday will connect the Slovenian funnymen Fico Ballet (they cross classical ballet with football in dance) with the Dutch dance philosopher Piet Rogi. And finally, the Canadian troupe Butoh-a-go-go will perform on the same day as the premiere of Othello.
Kevin Bergsma and Thomas Enfield, the founders of this troupe and its only actors, arrived at the festival in advance and were therefore able to attend the press conference. Two colorful types (one a former ballet dancer, the other a painting teacher at a local art school: shaved skulls and an enthusiastic sparkle in the eyes) told reporters that butoh as a dance style appeared in Japan after the Second World War; that Canada is a country of immigrants, and therefore people who live in Vancouver take a little from different cultures; and that when they do butoh they think of jazz - it began as the music of blacks, and now it is the music of all humanity. Modern dance is definitely becoming the music of all humanity - and the artistic director of “Moscow”, apparently, still has an ear for music. He promised that the festival would become regular and would be held every two years. Anna GORDEEVA |
|
