Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation Festival “diaghilev. P. S.” in 2013

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Festival “DIAGHILEV. P.S.” in 2013

The IV^th International Festival of Arts “Diaghilev. P.S.” will be held in Saint Petersburg from November 23 till November 29, 2013.

On November 22 press conference representing the Festival’s program of 2013 will take place in the hotel Corinthia Saint Petersburg at 12.00.

Among the participants of the press-conference will be choreographer Angelin Preljokaj and guests of the Festival “Diaghilev. P.S.” who will open the exhibition “Style on Stage. Art of Elegance” in the Sheremetev Palace a few days before the press-conference: an Italian producer Valeria Mangany, curator of the Exhibition Massimiliano Capella and opera star Raina Kabaivanska.

Hotel “Corinthia Saint Petersburg” (57, Nevsky prospect)

12.00. Accreditation of participants

On November 23, Scientific conference “Theater and Fashion. Dialogue of Arts” starts in the Museum of Theatre and Music. The conference is devoted to the issues of mutual influence of onstage dress culture and fashion as an element of everyday culture. Mission of the conference is to trace the retrospective of interrelations and analyze the phenomena of “symbiosis” of theater and fashion at the moment of the greatest convergence of these arts, starting from the 18^th century up to date. Among the speakers are: Olga Khoroshilova, Ekaterina Istomina, Sergey Nikolayevich, Karina Dobrotvorskaya, Julya Demidenko, Megan Virtanen, Nikolai Onegin, Elizabethe McLean (Great Britain) etc..

Museum of Theater and Music (6, Ostrovsky square)

Opening at 12 a.m. Accreditation of participants
On November 23 and 24, at 8 p.m., Festival “Diaghilev. P.S.” presents a new production by the French choreographer Angelin Preljokaj — “The Nights” in the Alexandrinsky theater. In October, 2011 within the frames of the Festival “Diaghilev. P.S.” appearance of the Angelin Preljokaj’s Company performing the ballet “The Snow White” was hailed with long applause.

This year the Festival gives the citizens a chance to meet a new creation of the choreographer – ballet “The Nights” also based on fairytale tune. Main source of inspiration for Angelin Preljocaj this time was “1000 and 1Night”.

The stage team is remarkable as always:

music: Natasha Atlas and Sami Bishai, 79D

costumes: Azzedine Alaia

scenography: Constance Guisset

light: Sessile Giovancili-Visser Alexandrinskytheater (2, Ostrovsky square)

8 p.m.

On November 24 photo-exhibition “The Russian Los-Angeles. Igor Stravinsky. Innovation and Dance” will be opended in the Museum of Theater and Music. This exhibition presents unknown to the Russian audience pictures of great people of ballet taken by American photographers. Their “models” were Igor Stravinsky, George Balanchine, Vera and Michel Fokines, Bronislava Nijinskaya and others.

Museum of Theater and Music (6, Ostrovsky square)

6 p.m.
On November 25, in Mikhailovsky Theater the Bavarian National Ballet (Germany) presents a famous one-act ballet “The Gods and Dogs” by an outstanding choreographer Jiří Kylián. Initially, the ballet was staged for NDT Company in 2008, to the music by F-minor Beethoven string quartet, whimsically combined with avant-garde tunes by Dirk Haubrich. This 30-minute ballet, violent and psychologically convincing, is incredibly impressing.

This night also one-act ballets by Nacho Duato will be performed.

Mikhailovsky Theater (1, Square of Arts)

7 p.m.

On November 27-28, in Mikhailovsky Theater, the Festival “Diaghilev. P.S.” presents the one-act ballet nights performed by the company of the Norwegian National Ballet (Oslo).

In the program there are two ballets by Jiří Kylián. The St Petersburg audience will meet with unique ballet lexts created by the Czech choreograph. Paying a tribute to the postulates of classic ballet, Kylián surprisingly combines them with freedom of modern dance, at the same time preserving sense of humor inhering in him.

“Wings of Wax”. Choreography by Jiří Kylián to the music by the 20^th century composers – John Cage, Philip Glass, and the 17^th century composers – Johann Sebastian Bach and Heinrich von Biber.

“Soldiers mass”.Choreography by Jiří Kylián to the music by Boguslav Martinu composed in 1939 in memory of the battalion of young Czech soldiers fallen in the very first battle in France during the First World war.

Light lyric ballet “Suite” by the young Norwegian choreographer Jo Stromgren is penetrated with romanticism of first love. The author’s choreographic language adherent to the traditions of neoclassicism resonates with the themes of “The Dance in the Party” by Gerome Robbins.

Mikhailovsky Theater (1, Square of Arts)

7 p. m.

Cycle of vocal and instrumental concerts in cooperation with three famous Dutch music festivals: Hortus Festival, Peter de Grote (Festival of Peter the Great), Grachtenfestival (Musical Festival on Amsterdam canals), and the International fortepiano competition named after Franz Liszt is coincided with the Netherlands – Russia year. The Festival partners for the Russian-Holland relations are the bureaus of cultural programs Voyage&Culture.

Program of the Festival “Diaghilev. P.S.”

Date	Event	Venue
23 Nov 12.00	International Scientific Conference Theatre and Fashion. Dialogue of arts	Museum of Theatre and Music 6, Ostrovsky square
23 Nov, 20.00	Ballet Nights by Angelin Preljocaj, the Ballet Preljocaj (National Choreographic Centre Aix-en-Provence, France)	Alexandrinsky theatre 2, Ostrovsky square
24 Nov, 20.00	Ballet Nights Second performance	Alexandrinsky theatre 2, Ostrovsky square
24 Nov, 14.00	Concert Les Ballets Russes Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du printemps Claude Debussy - Jeux Unique Netherland-Russian version of performance on 4 pianos (2 Russian and 2 Holland pianists: Vitaly Pisarenko,Olga Kozlova, Maarten van Veen, Ralf van Raat)	Smolny Sobor, 1, Rastrelly square
24 Nov 18.00	Opening of the exhibition Russian Los-Angeles. Stravinsky, Innovation and Dance.	Museum of Theatre and Music 6, Ostrovsky square
24 Nov 19.00	Igor and Coco. Musical play Music: Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky Libretto based on letters and diaries of Coco Chanel, Vera Stravinskaya and others. Performance: Mikhaela Rainer (soprano), Maarten van Veen (piano)	Museum of Theatre and Music 6, Ostrovsky square
25 Nov 19.00	Ballet Gods and Dogs, choreography by Jiří Kylián, Bavarian State Ballet (Germany) One-act ballets by Nacho Duato: In the Forest Invisible	Mikhailovsky Theatre 1, Square of Arts
26 Nov 19.00	Concert Inspired by Russia (Netherlands). In program: pieces by Holland composer Wim Zwaag Performance: Erun den Herder, Ilona Timchenko, Ruth Villemce and others.	Rimsky-Korsakov Museum-apartment, 28, Zagorodniy pr.
27 Nov 19.00	Wings of Wax (choreography by Jiří Kylián) Suite (choreography by Jo Strømgren) Soldiers Mass (choreography by Jiří Kylián) The Norwegian National Ballet	Mikhailovsky Theatre 1, Square of Arts
28 Nov 19.00	Wings of Wax (choreography by Jiří Kylián) Suite (choreography by Jo Strømgren) Soldiers Mass (choreography by Jiří Kylián) The Norwegian National Ballet	Mikhailovsky Theatre 1, Square of Arts
28 Nov 19.00	Concert From Russia with Love to List List, Rubnstein , Borodin, Tchaikovsky Performance: Gulnara Shafigulina (soprano), Olga Kozlova (piano)	Smolny Sobor 1, Rastrelly square
29 Nov 19.00	The Sound of Peter the Great’s Epoch. Concert of music of the XVII century performed on harpsichord. Performance: Johan Hoffman (Netherlands)	Sheremetev Palace 34, Fontanka emb.

The Festival was founded in the year of the 100th anniversary of Sergei Diaghilev’s Les SaisonsRusses in St Petersburg, which had given to the great impresario of the XX century the initial start and inspiration. The mission of the festival is to continue the line of Sergei Diaghilev and facilitate the cultural exchange of all new ideas in the arts between Russia and the rest of the world. During the 4 years since then the Festival has become one of the major cultural events in the city. It has brought to St Petersburg tours of the best contemporary dance companies –the Hamburg Ballet of John Neumeier with his premiere production of “Le Pavilion d’Armide”, his masterpiece “Le Sacre du printemps” and others, tour of the Aix-en-Provence company of Angelin Preljokaj with the Russian premiere of his ballet “The Snow White”, The Bolshoi Ballet of Russia, orchestra of Perm opera and ballet theatre under maestro Theodor Kurentzis.The exhibitions of the Festival at the State Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum and State Museum of Ethnography discovered for the citizens some masterpieces from the leading international museums of the world. In the year of Russian-Italian cultural cooperation (2011) the festival presented in Rome for the Roman carnival concert “RUSSIAN MASLENITSA” and exhibition “RUSSIAN WINTER” showing Russian traditions to Italians – just to name but a few major achievements of the Festival.

In 2011 the Festival has established award “ETONNE MOI!” for an original artistic project bringing together international cultures. The first winner of the award was director of the Chekhov Festival in Moscow Valery Shadrin. In 2012 it was given to John Neumeier.

In 2012, the Festival’s program was devoted to the jubilee of the greatest contemporary choreographer, the founder of the company “Hamburg ballet” - John Neumeier, who became the second winner of the award “ETONNE MOI!”. At the Gala-concert “Neumeier without Borders” fragments of the famous master’s ballets performed on the best world stages were shown. In Saint Petersburg they were performed by outstanding premier dancers of the leading ballet companies of the world – Roberto Bolle (ABT New York and La Scala), Julia Kent (ABT New York), and Hamburg ballet principal dancers Hélène Bouchet, Anna Polikarpova, Lloyd Riggins, Alexander Ryabko, Ivan Urban, and others.

The exhibition “Vaslav Nijinsky and John Neumeier”, for the first time in Russia presented unique collection of graphical materials about Vaslav Nijinsky from John Neumeier’s private collection. The guests could see the portraits of the igneous dancer by Amedeo Modigliani, Gustav Klimt, Jean Cocteau and drawings by Nijinsky himself.
Please, contact us for detailed information, accreditation to the Festival events, and requests for interview.

PR director of the Festival Natalia Plekhanova

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Artistic Director of the Festival Natalia Metelitsa

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Executive Director of the Festival Ekaterina Sirakanian

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Program Director of the Festival Alexandra Shtarkman

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Press-release and illustrations:
http://www.diaghilev-ps.ru/ru/dps_prelise.html

https://www.dropbox.com/s/08zg8sr2k3e4r8n/Preljo%D1%81aj.zip

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7i8kp6909lzayfi/fwd.zip

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fq0r5fonc0tlff2/Soldiers%27%20Mass%26Suite%20and%20Wings%20of%20Wax.zip

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