Triple Bill by Ivan Vasiliev
Blind Affair. Bolero. Morphine
music by Max Richter, Maurice Ravel, Gustav Mahler
Outstanding dancer and audience favourite Ivan Vasiliev has fulfilled his long-standing dream of becoming a choreographer. Three of his one-act ballets are now firm fixtures in the theatre’s repertoire: Blind Affair, Bolero, and Morphine. Blind Affair, set to music by the British composer Max Richter, is a choreographic calque of modern society with its dependence on mobile gadgets. Bolero, in which the choreographer rebels against everyday life and ordinariness, is an interesting new take on Maurice Ravel’s music; here the dance is akin to a call for an escape to freedom. The literary source for Morphine, set to Gustav Mahler’s music, is Bulgakov’s A Young Doctor’s Notebook. The main character tries to escape from the phantoms that haunt him, but only sinks deeper into a nightmare.
Music: Max Richter
Performers: Irina Perren, Ivan Vasiliev, Maria Dmitrienko, Valeria Zapasnikova, Anna Kuligina, Sabina Yapparova, Ivan Zaytsev, Andrey Lapshanov, Nikita Nazarov, Andrey Nemich, Alexander Omar, Sergey Strelkov
Bolero
Music: Maurice Rave
Performers: Anna Kuligina, Ekaterina Odarenko, Sabina Yapparova, Valeria Zapasnikova, Ivan Zaytsev, Alexey Kuznetsov, Andrey Nemich
Morphine
Music: Gustav Mahler
Performers: Irina Perren , Ivan Vasiliev, Maria Dmitrienko , Valeria Zapasnikova , Anna Kuligina, Sabina Yapparova, Ivan Zaytsev, Nikita Nazarov, Andrey Nemich, Alexander Omar
Photo: Vogue Russia
Costumes: Alexandra Leonidova
Lighting: Alexander Kibitkin
Répétiteur: Elvira Khabibullina
