Nurbek Batulla reached the final of the Context Choreographers Competition. Diana Vishneva
The organizers of the Context. Diana Vishneva published the list of finalists of the 2020 Young Choreographers Competition. Among them are Nurbek Batulla from Kazan, Igor Bulytsyn from Yekaterinburg, Olga Ryzhkova from Voronezh, Ernest Nurgali and Irina Sergeeva from St. Petersburg. They will present their performances at the Gogol Center in Moscow, as well as at the Boris Eifman Children's Dance Theater in St. Petersburg.
This year, more than 100 applications from various cities of Russia and the world were submitted to the competition.
The winner of the competition will receive a grant to undergo an internship at one of the leading schools of contemporary dance.
Reference: Nurbek Batulla was born in Kazan in 1988. Graduated from the Kazan Choreographic School in 2007 and the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (RGISI, St. Petersburg) with a degree in Drama and Film Artist in 2016. From 2007 to 2014 he worked as a ballet dancer and choreographer in Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater named after Musa Jalil. From 2016 to 2018 he taught at the Kazan Choreographic School a course in acting, participated in the performances of the Kazan Tatar State Theater for Young Spectators named after I. G. Kariev as a choreographer. Laureate of the Golden Mask theater award in the Ballet - Contemporary Dance / Male Role nomination for his role in the play Alif (Call of the Beginning) (2018).