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
Choreographers — Marcel and Maria Nuriev (Kazan)
Composer — Sugder Ludup
Sound Designer — Andrey Vorobyov
Lighting Designer — Natalya Tuzova
Costume Designer — Serafima Chelina
Executive Producer — Daria Tretyakova
Troupe Manager — Miroslava Kosyachenko
Technical Director — Alexey Bondarenko
Performers:
musicAeterna Dance
Choreographers — Marcel and Maria Nuriev (Kazan)
Composer — Sugder Ludup
Sound Designer — Andrey Vorobyov
Lighting Designer — Natalya Tuzova
Costume Designer — Serafima Chelina
Executive Producer — Daria Tretyakova
Troupe Manager — Miroslava Kosyachenko
Technical Director — Alexey Bondarenko
Performers:
musicAeterna Dance
Hildegardof Bingen (1098–1179)
O virga ac diadema | O branch and diadem
sequence
Teodor Currentzis
Alleluia
Φῶς ἱλαρὸν | O Gladsome Radiance
the entrance chant of Great Vespers, the Byzantine tradition
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Voskres iz groba |Christ is risen from the grave
Troparion No. 14 from the All-Night Vigil for mixed choir, Op. 37 (1915)
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933–2010)
Amen for mixed choir, Op. 35 (1975)
Ἐξομολογεῖσθε τῷ Κυρίῳ | Confess to the Lord
antiphon of the Byzantine tradition
Sub tuum praesidium | Under Your mercy we take refuge
hymn to the Virgin (3rd-4th century)
Alexander Knaifel (1943–2024)
Uteshityelyu | To thee, Comforter
Prayer to the Holy Spirit for mixed choir (1995)
Ave rex gentis anglorum | Hail, King of the English people
hymn to King Edward the Martyr (England, 11th century)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Ave verum corpus (1952)
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
A Hymn to the Virgin for double choir (1930)
Teodor Currentzis
Εωθινόν | Morning Chant (2022)
Improvisation on Bikapo sound sculptures
The programme is subject to change.
Musical Director and Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Stage Director Anna Guseva
Choirmaster Vitaly Polonsky
Choreographer Aisylu Mirhafizkhan
Lighting Designer Natalia Tuzova
Performers:
musicAeterna Choir
musicAeterna Dance
musicAeterna Orchestra soloists and guest artists:
Alexander Shirunov, accordion
Sasha Listova, piano
Andrey Baranenko, organ
Alexey Amosov, Andrey Volosovsky, Maxim Sanin, percussion
Yiorgos Kaloudis, classical Cretan lyra
Maria Zorkina, lever harp
Olga Komok, organetto
Bikapo improvisation performers:
Lada Raskolnikova
Alexey Sulin
Mikhail Myasoyedov
Eleonora Myasoyedova
Hildegardof Bingen (1098–1179)
O virga ac diadema | O branch and diadem
sequence
Teodor Currentzis
Alleluia
Φῶς ἱλαρὸν | O Gladsome Radiance
the entrance chant of Great Vespers, the Byzantine tradition
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Voskres iz groba |Christ is risen from the grave
Troparion No. 14 from the All-Night Vigil for mixed choir, Op. 37 (1915)
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933–2010)
Amen for mixed choir, Op. 35 (1975)
Ἐξομολογεῖσθε τῷ Κυρίῳ | Confess to the Lord
antiphon of the Byzantine tradition
Sub tuum praesidium | Under Your mercy we take refuge
hymn to the Virgin (3rd-4th century)
Alexander Knaifel (1943–2024)
Uteshityelyu | To thee, Comforter
Prayer to the Holy Spirit for mixed choir (1995)
Ave rex gentis anglorum | Hail, King of the English people
hymn to King Edward the Martyr (England, 11th century)
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Ave verum corpus (1952)
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
A Hymn to the Virgin for double choir (1930)
Teodor Currentzis
Εωθινόν | Morning Chant (2022)
Improvisation on Bikapo sound sculptures
The programme is subject to change.
Musical Director and Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Stage Director Anna Guseva
Choirmaster Vitaly Polonsky
Choreographer Aisylu Mirhafizkhan
Lighting Designer Natalia Tuzova
Performers:
musicAeterna Choir
musicAeterna Dance
musicAeterna Orchestra soloists and guest artists:
Alexander Shirunov, accordion
Sasha Listova, piano
Andrey Baranenko, organ
Alexey Amosov, Andrey Volosovsky, Maxim Sanin, percussion
Yiorgos Kaloudis, classical Cretan lyra
Maria Zorkina, lever harp
Olga Komok, organetto
Bikapo improvisation performers:
Lada Raskolnikova
Alexey Sulin
Mikhail Myasoyedov
Eleonora Myasoyedova