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 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. She is a laureate of the International Competition “Arabesque” in the contemporary dance category.
MA Dance events
musicAeterna Dance presents the performative almanac The Lover. The premiere of the first performance from this cycle will take place on 16 and 17 December 2025. The work will continue to be developed in 2026 and will become one of the main themes of the dance troupe’s artistic research.
Director – Anna Guseva
Choreographer – Anastasia Peshkova
Composer – Andreas Moustoukis
Production Designer – Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer – Serafima Chelina
Lighting Designer – Natalia Tuzova
Executive Producer – Darya Tretyakova
Technical Director – Aleksey Bondarenko
Manager – Yana Murina
Performers:
musicAeterna Dance
musicAeterna Dance presents the performative almanac The Lover. The premiere of the first performance from this cycle will take place on 16 and 17 December 2025. The work will continue to be developed in 2026 and will become one of the main themes of the dance troupe’s artistic research.
Director – Anna Guseva
Choreographer – Anastasia Peshkova
Composer – Andreas Moustoukis
Production Designer – Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer – Serafima Chelina
Lighting Designer – Natalia Tuzova
Executive Producer – Darya Tretyakova
Technical Director – Aleksey Bondarenko
Manager – Yana Murina
Performers:
musicAeterna Dance