Alevtina Gruntovskaya

Artist with MA Dance since 2022

Alevtina Gruntovskaya graduated from Chernyshevsky State University in Saratov as a philologist and Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet majoring in Artistic Practices of Modern Dance. She worked in the Contemporary Dance Theatre “Guildiya” (St. Petersburg, 2015-2016), Ksenia Mikheeva’s project (St. Petersburg, 2017-2019).

In 2017 and 2019, she completed internships with the DASS (Dance Academy Season School) project in Tel Aviv and Amsterdam. She studied at master classes with Maria Kolegova, Germaine Jauregui, Dor Mamalia, and in the laboratory of the Humanhood dance company (Great Britain).

In 2018 she founded 9 a.m. Dance Company. Since 2022 she has been a choreographer and playwright of the Inclusive Troupe of Contemporary Dance and Performance of the Anton Tut Ryadom Foundation.

She participated in the following projects: The New Habit (Dom Radio, directed by Claudia Castellucci, 2021), Pulcinella (choreographer Nanine Linning, 2021), I Think it Seemed to You (GES-2, authors and directors Tatiana Chizhikova and Polina Bakhtina, 2022), Love Will Tear Us Apart (Dom Radio, choreographers Polina Mitryashina, Alya Gruntovskaya, director Anna Guseva, 2022), Lilac Pulsating Shine (SDVIG Performative Arts Space, choreographer Maria Sheshukova, 2022), Carl Orff’s De temporum fine comoedia (Perm, Diaghilev Festival, musical director Teodor Currentzis, choreographer Anastasia Peshkova, directed by Anna Guseva). She created the mono-performance “Illusion” (2021), acted as a dance playwright in the inclusive dance performance “On the Way” (2021-2022).

She writes critical articles and gives lectures on modern dance. She teaches at Diana Vishneva’s Context Studio. She is the curator of the educational programme “Theories About Practice: Reflection on Dance and Performance of the 20th and 21st Centuries” at Dom Radio.

YOUR HOMETOWN

Saratov

YOUR "GO-TO BOOK"

James Joyce "Ulysses"

FAVOURITE CHOREOGRAPHERS

Yvonne Rainer, Meg Stuart, Noah Wertheim

A MOMENT OF INSIGHT

I'm 25, it's 6:30 in the morning, I'm in Rome, looking at the Trevi Fountain.

WHAT IS MOVEMENT FOR YOU?

It is a body that remembers its origins and roots, sees a part of itself in them, but does not exclude the present itself, supports what is in it today. It is poetic movement, or, if you like, the movement is poetry. It recognizes itself as rhythmic and at the same time free from conventions, generously shares knowledge and skillfully absorbs new things.

WHAT DOES MUSICAETERNA DANCE MEAN TO YOU?

It is a unique experience that happens to us. You know for sure that you are where you should be, and with those with whom it is important to be around. Here there is an opportunity to share and at the same time keep for yourself what others give. It is the boundless generosity of movement, sound, and their communication. It is the joy of meeting like-minded people, the joy of dancing together.

musicAeterna orchestra events

May 26, 20:00

St. Petersburg | State Academic Capella

Dvořák: Alexander Sladkovsky and musicAeterna

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June 1, 21:00

St. Petersburg | Hermitage Museum

The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir. Ars Vivendi

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
The thunderstorm scene from Act II of the opera-ballet Platée ou Junon jalouse (1745)
Act IV, Scene 4: Entry of the muse Polyhymnia from the lyrical tragedy Abaris ou les Boreades (1763)
Tambourines I, II from the prologue to the lyrical tragedy Dardanus (1739)

Antonio Lotti (1667–1740)
Crucifixus a 8 voci from Credo in F Major (before 1717)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Concerto for Cello and Strings in C Minor, RV 401 (late 1720s)

Allegro non molto
Adagio
Allegro ma non molto

The soloist Rabbani Aldangor

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Ombra mai fu (There was never a shadow), aria of Xerxes from Act I of the opera Xerxes, HWV 40 (1738)
The soloist Andrey Nemzer, countertenor
Furie terribili! (Terrible Furies!), aria of Armida from Act I of the opera Rinaldo, HWV 7a (1711/1731)
The soloist Elizaveta Sveshnikova, soprano
Piangerò la sorte mia (I will mourn my fate), aria of Cleopatra from Act III of the opera Julius Caesar, HWV 17, (1724)
The soloist Elizaveta Sveshnikova, soprano
Venti, turbini (Winds, whirlwinds), aria of Rinaldo from Act I of the opera Rinaldo, HWV 7a (1711/1731)
The soloist Andrey Nemzer, countertenor

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm (Come, Jesus, come), motet for double choir in G minor, BWV 229 (before 1731–1732)
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (Praise the Lord, all ye nations), motet for four-voice choir, dubbing instruments and basso continuo in C major, BWV 230 (n.d.)
Erbarme dich, mein Gott (Have mercy, my God), aria of the alto No. 39 (47) from the sacred oratorio St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (1727–1729/1736)
Soloists:
Andrey Nemzer, countertenor
Vladislav Pesin, violin

George Frideric Handel
Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa (Leave the thorn, pluck the rose), aria of Pleasure from Act II of the oratorio The Triumph of Time and Disillusion, HWV 46a (1707)
Soloists:
Elizaveta Sveshnikova, soprano
Andrey Nemzer, countertenor

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Sauvages/Forêts paisibles (The Savages/Peaceful Forests) from Act IV of the opera-ballet The Gallant Indies, (1725/1736)

Duration: 60 minutes

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June 2, 19:00

St. Petersburg | Hermitage Museum

The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir. Ars Vivendi

Antonio Lotti (1667–1740)
Crucifixus a 8 voci from Credo in F Major (before 1717)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Concerto for Cello and Strings in C Minor, RV 401 (late 1720s)

Allegro non molto
Adagio
Allegro ma non molto

The soloist Rabbani Aldangor

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Sauvages/Forêts paisibles (The Savages/Peaceful Forests) from Act IV of the opera-ballet The Gallant Indies, (1725/1736)

Duration: 60 minutes

Sold out

An event of Diaghilev Festival

June 20, 19:00

Perm | Great Hall of the Perm Philharmonic

Concert of musicAeterna: Bach

An event of Diaghilev Festival

June 25, 19:00

Perm | Soldatov Palace of Culture

Mozart: opera-singspiel The Magic Flute