musicAeterna Dance
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.
Events
A new production of the musicAeterna Dance troupe is a dance fantasy performance, a tribute to Vsevolod Meyerhold and Kazimir Malevich’s performance based on the play by Vladimir Mayakovsky Mystery-Bouffe (1918), dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Meyerhold.
The fantasy performance Mystery About That is not just an homage, but a further reflection on topics suggested a hundred years ago, at a new turn of history. In Mayakovsky’s revolutionary eschatology, the authors of the production are looking for a place for love and personality. Through a simple laconic form — the division of crowd into groups and couples, staging conflict within groups, the collapse of groups into individual performers, — Mystery About That is examining disengagement of an individual with a community, their gradual acquisition of a personal voice and vector of movement. The path to acquire individuality is dramatic — from the euphoria of collective thinking and belonging to a group to the emergence of internal conflicts, from external clashes to total polarization at the level of ‘friend or foe’ and ‘all against all’. In these conditions of constant personality changes, internal support is required. This support is found in love. Thus, the second text of Mayakovsky appeared at the heart of the fantasy performance — his poem About That in which the pain of love grows into a victorious feeling of universal proportions. Only love is capable of giving the participants of the performance the strength to answer the question — whether to remain an eternal stranger in the world of ready-made opinions or to seek their own path.
Director — Anna Guseva
Dramaturgy — Julia Orlova, Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Maria Levina Video
Video Artist — Julia Orlova
Composer — Kirill Arkhipov
Tutor in voice production / Singer — Olga Vlasova
musicAeterna Dance troupe:
Aigulya Buzaeva
Timur Ganeyev
Alevtina Gruntovskaya
Evgeny Kalachev
Maksim Klochnev
Savva Korotych
Anna Kuznetsova
Elena Lisnaya
Aisylu Mirhafizkhan
Kamil Mustafayev
Alexei Slutskii
Daria Tagiltseva
A new production of the musicAeterna Dance troupe is a dance fantasy performance, a tribute to Vsevolod Meyerhold and Kazimir Malevich’s performance based on the play by Vladimir Mayakovsky Mystery-Bouffe (1918), dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Meyerhold.
The fantasy performance Mystery About That is not just an homage, but a further reflection on topics suggested a hundred years ago, at a new turn of history. In Mayakovsky’s revolutionary eschatology, the authors of the production are looking for a place for love and personality. Through a simple laconic form — the division of crowd into groups and couples, staging conflict within groups, the collapse of groups into individual performers, — Mystery About That is examining disengagement of an individual with a community, their gradual acquisition of a personal voice and vector of movement. The path to acquire individuality is dramatic — from the euphoria of collective thinking and belonging to a group to the emergence of internal conflicts, from external clashes to total polarization at the level of ‘friend or foe’ and ‘all against all’. In these conditions of constant personality changes, internal support is required. This support is found in love. Thus, the second text of Mayakovsky appeared at the heart of the fantasy performance — his poem About That in which the pain of love grows into a victorious feeling of universal proportions. Only love is capable of giving the participants of the performance the strength to answer the question — whether to remain an eternal stranger in the world of ready-made opinions or to seek their own path.
Director — Anna Guseva
Dramaturgy — Julia Orlova, Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Maria Levina Video
Video Artist — Julia Orlova
Composer — Kirill Arkhipov
Tutor in voice production / Singer — Olga Vlasova
musicAeterna Dance troupe:
Aigulya Buzaeva
Timur Ganeyev
Alevtina Gruntovskaya
Evgeny Kalachev
Maksim Klochnev
Savva Korotych
Anna Kuznetsova
Elena Lisnaya
Aisylu Mirhafizkhan
Kamil Mustafayev
Alexei Slutskii
Daria Tagiltseva
Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)
Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris
Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam
Performers:
She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)
Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris
Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam
Performers:
She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955)
Passion, an opera in ten scenes (2006–2007)
Libretto by Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteris
Music Director and Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Assistant Conductor, Vocal Coach — Olga Vlasova
Stage Director — Anna Guseva
Choreographer — Anastasia Peshkova
Artist — Yulia Orlova
Costume Designer — Anna Chistova
Lighting Designer — Ivan Vinogradov
Video Artist — Alan Mandelstam
Performers:
She — Natalia Smirnova / Iveta Simonyan
He — Sergey Godin / Kirill Nifontov
Artists of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
musicAeterna Dance troupe
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission