Program
Soulwhirl
choreographer, performer: Olga Tsvetkova
director: Vladimir Nikolouzos
composer: Vangelino Currentzis
light: Anatoly Lyapin
Bride Song
choreographer: Nanine Linning (Netherlands)
music: Alexey Retinsky
light: Nanine Linning, Anatoly Lyapin
costume designer: Sergey Illarionov
conductor: Fedor Lednev
soprano: Ekaterina Dondukova
dancers: Ksenia Mikheeva, Alexandra Sergeeva
Nikita Markelov, Yaroslav Didin
musicAeterna Orchestra soloists
piano: Nikolai Mazhara
harp: Maria Zorkina
percussion: Andrey Volosovsky
cello: Vladimir Slovachevsky
hurdy-gurdy: Olga Komok
Details
Soulwhirl is a dance performance created by choreographer and dancer Olga Tsvetkova, film and theatre director Vladimir Nikolouzos, and composer Vangelino Currentzis. Soulwhirl refers to the journey of the human experience through which man descends into the depths of the psyche finding the essence to rise above it, and even his own body.
Bride Song is a dance miniature by the Dutch choreographer Nanine Linning. It is set to the composition of the same name by the musicAeterna resident Alexey Retinsky for soprano and chamber ensemble based on poems by Emily Dickinson (2020). Music and movement in the Bride Song performance do not illustrate but mutually enrich each other, have the same weight but different form and content. The fragile charm of Alexey Retinsky’s song plunges into the “objective” space-sound continuum and becomes the culmination of the dance score. Nanine Linning: “The piece feels like a lucid dream. Two women are being lit by ghostly figures, as echoes of their movements, as future echoes of their spirits, placing their femininity and vulnerable sisterhood against a dark and magnetic field of energy. Their innocence is sung by soprano Katya Dondukova, surrounded by musicians of the musicAeterna.”