Festival of modern choreography #StagePlatforma will be held in Kazan again
On November 5 and 6, 2019, Kazan will host the III Festival of Modern Choreography #StagePlatforma. The initiator and artistic director of the project is Honored Artist of Tatarstan, soloist of the Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Jalil Oleg Ivenko.
The gala concert of the festival with the participation of eminent ballet dancers of Russia and Europe will take place on November 6 at the Tatar Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Dzhalil. The #StagePlatforma program will also be composed of dance workshops and open lectures on contemporary-dance art. Events of the educational program will be held at the House of Actor named after M. Salimzhanov on November 5 and 6, a detailed schedule will be announced later.
The festival was made possible thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan with the participation of the Tatar Academic State Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after M. Jalil and the Union of Theater Workers of the Republic of Tatarstan.
“The first #StagePlatforma festival was held in April 2018 at the Actor’s House,” says laureate of international competitions, dancer and actor, who played the role of Rudolf Nuriev in the film by Rafe Fiennes “The White Raven” (2019) Oleg Ivenko. - We saw a great interest of Kazan in the art of contemporary dance. This is not surprising, because the rhythm of our life is in the content, it is an emotionally strong art. Modern directions of ballet art are addressed to the feelings and experiences of us!
As part of the third festival, we will try to talk more about modern choreography, there will be a series of open lectures. We will give people the opportunity to feel the power of contemporary dance on themselves - there will be master classes from famous dancers and choreographers for common public. Well, the culmination of the festival is a gala concert with the participation of invited dancers from several theaters of the world ...
I am grateful to the Minister of Culture of Tatarstan Irada Ayupova, who helps to bring our project to a new level. I thank the leadership of the Opera House and the Union of Theater Workers of the Republic for their confidence. "
The gala concert of the #StagePlatforma festival will be attended by: Honored Artist of Russia, Laureate of the “Soul of Dance” award, “Golden Soffit” award Mikhail Lobukhin (Bolshoi Theater of Russia, Moscow), Honored Artist of Tatarstan, Laureate of the “Soul of Dance” award Ruslan Savdenov and Alexandra Surodeeva (Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, France), participants of the Bolshoi Ballet show on the Rossiya-Kultura TV channel Midori Terada and Koya Okava (Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater), laureate of the Russian Golden Mask Theater Award Vladimir Varnava (choreographer and performer, St. Petersburg), Ilya Zhivoy (Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg), Konstantin Keykhel (choreographer, St. Petersburg), laureates of the “Soul of Dance” award Olga Chelpanova and Konstantin Korotkov (Slovak National Theater, Bratislava), winners of the Bolshoi Ballet show “Russia-Culture” Amanda Gomez and Wagner Carvalho (TAGTOiB named after M. Jalil), Honored Artist of Tatarstan, laureate of the prize “Soul of Dance”, laureate of the State Prize of the RT named after G. Tukai Mikhail Timaev (TASTOiB named after M. Jalil), soloists of TASTOiB named after M. Jalil Anton Polodyuk, Alexander Elagin, Alessandro Kaggeji, Mana Kuvabara; as well as Maria and Marcel Nurievs (Kazan), Dmitry Karanevsky (vocals, St. Petersburg), Alexander Ablaev (drums, Kazan).
Additional information is available on the official website of the theater.
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The first festival of modern dance and stage practices #StagePlatforma was held in April 2018 at the House of Actor in Kazan. The festival program included more than 15 master classes in various areas of choreography (from classical pointe dance to contemporary dance), as well as a gala concert of modern choreography with the participation of leading dancers working in Kazan (Oleg Ivenko, Marcel Nuriev, Alessandro Kaggeji , Koya Okawa, Midori Therada, Anna Fedorova, etc.).
In July 2018, the second festival (in the summer edition format) was held in the Kazan Kremlin (open air gala concert) and city parks (open air workshops). The third festival will be held on November 5-6, 2019 in the TAGTOiB named after M. Jalil (gala concert) and the House of Actor named after M. Salimzhanov (educational program) with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The #StagePlatforma festival was conceived with the aim of popularizing modern choreography, as well as introducing a wide audience (including youth) to this art through passive and active practices. The objectives of the festival: development of the professional community, involvement of young dancers and choreographers of Kazan, the creation of a platform for implementing their creative ideas. The artistic director of the project is Oleg Ivenko.