musicAeterna Dance was formed in 2022 and is based at Dom Radio in Saint Petersburg. In the course of the season, the dancers will practise with Russian and foreign choreographers and participate in ballet, opera, and performative productions.
The musicAeterna Dance concept is based on an interdisciplinary approach. The collaboration of dancers with musicians of the musicAeterna orchestra and choir turns into a creative symbiosis, an experience in recreating the ancient Greek trinity of ‘muse arts’: poetry, dance, and music. In choreography, academic and non-academic directions come into contact with physical theatre and vernacular plastics.
MusicAeterna Dance turns to various techniques and languages of modern dance, uses elements of meditation, yoga, and circus practices.
It is based on the principles of the theatre of the absurd, Peter Brook’s and Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘total theatre’, ‘dance theatre’ by Pina Bausch, Japanese Buto dance, flying-low, and countertechnique. It is looking for fundamentally new, yet to be discovered directions.
Choreographer Anastasia Peshkova will create a dance theatre laboratory together with artistic director Teodor Currentzis and director Anna Guseva. Experiment, drive, and freedom determined the development of Peshkova as a performer in the productions of Ballet Moscow, festival projects, work with choreographers Anna Abalikhina, Konstantin Keichel, Kirill Radev, and Francesco Ventriglia. She follows the same guidelines as a choreographer of musicAeterna Dance.
Among the guest choreographers of musicAeterna Dance are such prominent figures as the legend of Russian modern dance, guru for many generations Nina Gasteva, freelance choreographer, author of her own dance language Nanine Linning, and one of the most sought-after Russian choreographers Vladimir Varnava.
Anna Guseva
Anna Guseva is an artist, theatre, film, and fashion director. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. She took part in the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibitions in Paris, Dusseldorf, Bruges, etc. She created paintings and public art objects, costumes for theatre, video, and performance.
Anastasia Peshkova
Anastasia Peshkova is a contemporary dance choreographer and dancer. Since 2017 she has been a soloist of the contemporary dance troupe of the Ballet Moscow Theatre. Anastasia is a laureate of the International Competition for Ballet Dancers and Choreographers “Arabesque” in the contemporary dance category. She nominated for Russia’s “Golden Mask” National Theatre Award.
MA Dance events
Soulwhirl
choreographer, performer: Olga Tsvetkova
director: Vladimir Nikolouzos
composer: Vangelino Currentzis
light: Anatoly Lyapin
musician: Kirill Nifontov
lighting designer: Anatoly Lyapin
Soulwhirl
choreographer, performer: Olga Tsvetkova
director: Vladimir Nikolouzos
composer: Vangelino Currentzis
light: Anatoly Lyapin
musician: Kirill Nifontov
lighting Designer: Anatoly Lyapin
Immortal Bach is the result of the co–creation of the musicAeterna Choir, the musicAeterna Dance troupe and the Noir Films video artists team. This is a transmedia mystery concert with video installations, light objects, performative practices, moving between the locations of the Radio House and the immortal music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Immortal Bach is the result of the co–creation of the musicAeterna Choir, the musicAeterna Dance troupe and the Noir Films video artists team. This is a transmedia mystery concert with video installations, light objects, performative practices, moving between the locations of the Radio House and the immortal music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Immortal Bach is the result of the co–creation of the musicAeterna Choir, the musicAeterna Dance troupe and the Noir Films video artists team. This is a transmedia mystery concert with video installations, light objects, performative practices, moving between the locations of the Radio House and the immortal music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Immortal Bach is the result of the co–creation of the musicAeterna Choir, the musicAeterna Dance troupe and the Noir Films video artists team. This is a transmedia mystery concert with video installations, light objects, performative practices, moving between the locations of the Radio House and the immortal music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
A new curriculum is launched within Dom Radio educational programme. Theories About Practice: Reflection on Dance and Performance of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
The new curriculum will include lectures, screenings of dance and performances, their discussion, as well as interviews with choreographers or performers. The main goal of the new curriculum is to tell the audience about modern dance and performance based on the ideas and knowledge that they already have. The biggest emphasis will be put on modern dance as an interdisciplinary art, on finding new connections or revealing existing ones.
As part of the curriculum Theories About Practice: Reflection on Dance and Performance of the 20th and 21st Centuries, representatives of modern dance and performative scene will give lectures, talk about the continuity and connection between classical and modern dance, and also give forecasts of what awaits modern dance in the near future.
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Symphony of Psalms for Choir and Orchestra (1930, second edition 1948)
Persephone, a melodrama for speaker, soloists, choir, dancers and orchestra based on a libretto by André Gide (1933)
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest actors and soloists
Alexander Ponomaryov “Vesna” Children’s Choir
Director – Anna Guseva
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Symphony of Psalms for Choir and Orchestra (1930, second edition 1948)
Persephone, a melodrama for speaker, soloists, choir, dancers and orchestra based on a libretto by André Gide (1933)
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest actors and soloists
Alexander Ponomaryov “Vesna” Children’s Choir
Director – Anna Guseva
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis