Artem Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 One more Up & Down photo report by "Russia Beyond the Headlines" http://fr.rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2015/02/10/up_and_down_lart_du_ballet_psychologique_32739.html by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 Slovak media reports about Up & Down premiere in Bratislava (Sorry, but Slovak language only) Very big artical from Opera Plus magazine: http://operaplus.cz/up-down-eifman-ballet-v-bratislave/?pa=1 RTVS report about Bratislava premiere: (since 43:26): http://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/7600/59301# by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 The 2014 Boris Eifman Review Contest organized by the Eifman Ballet in St. Petersburg exstended untill 23 of February. You can find more information about the Contest on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/events/1559999767578179/?ref=98 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 Up & Down Riga premiere Riga, Latvian Nashional Opera, Latvian National Opera: 19:00 09.03.2015 Latvian National Opera: 19:00 10.03.2015 Boris Eifman's new ballet "Up & Down" was inspired by "Tender is the Night", by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The rise and fall of the characters takes place in wake of the so-called Jazz Era - a period of unstoppable celebration of life, freedom, sensuality and hedonism - depicted by virtuoso Boris Eifman and his company. Stage design created by the winner of Russia's top theater award - the "Golden Mask" - scenographer Zinovy Margolin, and lighting designer Gleb Filshtinsky, as well as music by such geniuses as George Gershwin, Franz Schubert and Alban Berg. Indulge in the most secret mysteries of the lead characters. by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 Press- Relise: Eifman ballet finished European tour and is getting ready for a series of performances in St. Petersburg In March and April Eifman Ballet will give a series of 9 performances at the Alexandrinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg). The following productions to be danced: Anna Karenina (March 2 and 3), Up & Down (March 16 and 17), Rodin (March 18), Beyond Sin (March 23), Requiem (24 March) and Onegin (April 6 and 7). For the first time in recent years the Company within a series of performances will present virtually its entire current repertory. Each of the ballets comprising the spring series enjoys the well-deserved love and rather popular among the audience, but, of course, special attention will be focused on the performance of the new ballet by Boris Eifman Up & Down. The first night of this work took place in St. Petersburg on January 27 and 28, 2015, and due to high excitement not everyone could see it at that period of time. This ballet triumphed among the St. Petersburg lovers of the art of dance. Later Up & Down was highly appreciated by the foreign audience. Its European premiere was held on February 9, 10 and 11 at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. The French spectators gave a standing ovation to the Petersburg dancers and the famous ballet resource Dansomanie said about it: “What a magnificent performance and outstanding dancers (what lifts!)”. The performance received high praise of the authoritative newspaper Le Figaro. “Dance is a jewel, expressive and delicate, playing with the classics and Charleston; artists are handsome, beautiful and well-proportional like supermodels ...” – writes dance critic of Ariane Bavelier about Eifman's new ballet. Nice French audience was not weary in sharing their enthusiastic impressions about the performance via the Internet: “Amazing!”, “Brilliant!”, “Bravo, Eifman!” – such comments were left by lovers of the art of dance on the official Companys Facebook page. In mid-February Up & Down was premiered in Bratislava not less successfully. Over the past six months the Company was performing in the capital of Slovakia for the second time, and again the audience of Bratislava showed respect to the Eifman Ballet, honouring choreographer and his dancers with the standing ovation. Between the series of March performances to be held in St. Petersburg the Company will continue touring. For instance, Eifman Ballet will present Rodin on March 7 at the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus. Belarusian audience will see the ballet devoted to the life and work of great French sculptor for the first time. On March 9 and 10 the Company will premiere Up & Down in Riga. by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Up & Down's new unofficial trailer https://vk.com/eifmanballet?w=wall-175940_4307 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 The Saint Petersburg audience had a chance to see the ballerina Ekaterina Shipulina (Moscow) onstage at the Alexandrinsky Theatre on 2 and 3 of March 2015. The Bolshoi Theatre’s prima and an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation performed the main part in the ballet “Anna Karenina” staged by the St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet. by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Thanks for keeping us updated Artem. I hope the company will be coming to the UK again as I missed their last visit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 You are welcom Janet! I hope that we'll visit London on 2016. by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Photo report by Evgeny Matveev from the presentation of the album "Another Realm for the Word" dedicated to the Boris Eifman's ballets based on the masterpieces of Russian literature. The event was held in the Bukvoed bookstore on February 25. The album was presented by the choreographer and Tatiana Boborykina, author of the included essays. https://vk.com/eifmanballet?w=wall-175940_4317 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 1, 2015 Author Share Posted March 1, 2015 (edited) Dance Europe's "Up & Down" Review soon! http://balletalert.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/39771-boris-eifmans-up-down/page-2 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Edited March 1, 2015 by Artem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 Eifman Ballet soloists Sergey Volobuev, Oleg Gabyshev and Dmitry Fisher have been nominated for the 2014 President of Russia’s Prize for young culture professionals for creating characters of the three brothers - Ivan, Dmitry and Alexey Karamazovs - in the Boris Eifman's ballet Beyond Sin. by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 mezze.tv presents Boris Eifman's Anna Karenina on Friday 06. March 20.30 http://www.mezzo.tv/en/our-programs/scheduling/anna-karenine-boris-eifman-eifman-ballet-0 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 End of Eifman Ballet's second March performance at the Alexandrinsky theater. Congratulations to all dancers and especially to Dmitry Fisher who made his debut as Karenin! by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 Today at 19:00 Eifman ballet presents "Rodin" on Minsk's Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 10, 2015 Author Share Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) Еxpanded version of Eifman Ballet Up & Down official trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0dTFa9dDk4 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Edited March 10, 2015 by Artem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Eifman ballet Petersburg's spring performanses 16 and 17 of March - Up & Downe 18 of march - Rodin 23 of March - Beyond Sin 24 of March - Requiem Russia, St Petersburg, Alexandrinsky theater, 20:00 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) ATV, the oldest Russian private TV company, started shooting the documentary about Boris Eifman. The film is expected to be premiered on Russian Channel One at an early date. by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Edited March 16, 2015 by Artem 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 We have few news: 1) Last night performance of "Rodn" in Alexandrinsky theater will be marked with several debuts. Anastasia Sitnikova will appear as Camille for the first time, and Lilia Lishchuk will make her debut as Rose Beuret. Dmitry Fisher to dance Rodin. 2) Graham Watts, british dance critic, visited St. Petersburg on this week. According last information, he saw "La Bayadere" and Mariinsky theater and Eifman's "Up and Down" in Alexsandrinsky theater, and also send greeting to all members of this forum We are waiting to his reports and reviews from SPb https://twitter.com/GWDanceWriter by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Thanks for the information, Artem, and best of luck to the debutants! And thanks for Graham's greetings also. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 Last time Russian language publication about Eifman’s ballet «Russkiy Mir» Eifman’s interview: http://russkiymir.ru/media/magazines/article/186716/ “Peterburgsky Dnevnik” Eifman’s interview: http://www.spbdnevnik.ru/news/2015-03-20/boris-eyfman--nashey-truppe-udalos-zanyat-pozitsiyu-baletnogo-teatra-budushchego/#ad-image-0 «Kulturprosvet” Oleg Gabushev’s interview: http://kultprosvet.by/geroj/intervyu/oleg_gabyishev “Nezavisimaia Gazeta” Eifman’s interview: http://www.ng.ru/culture/2015-03-19/100_updown.html by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 Eifman Ballet soloists Sergey Volobuev, Oleg Gabyshev and Dmitry Fisher who were announced today as the laureates of the 2014 President of Russia’s Prize for young culture professionals. The dancers were awarded for developing the traditions of the Russian art of ballet and creating characters of three brothers - Ivan, Dmitry and Alexey Karamazovs - in the Boris Eifman's ballet Beyond Sin. The awarding ceremony to be held in the Kremlin on March 25 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Many congratulations to them! Please put up a link to some photos of tonight's ceremony if you can. Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 (edited) This is nice part of ballet dancer job So, finaly we have information about missing Mr Putin It's Russian TV news report about the ceremony : http://www.1tv.ru/news/social/280443 And some more photos and text from Kremlin protocol service: http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/23768 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department Edited March 25, 2015 by Artem 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Great French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot visited Eifman Ballet Academy last Thusday https://vk.com/eifmandanceacademy?w=wall-45485797_1053 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 World Theater Day Greetings for all forum members from Eifman ballet! by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 Graham Watts's artical on Dance Tab about Eifman's ballet "Up & Down" premiere http://dancetabs.com/2015/03/eifman-ballet-up-down-st-petersburg/ by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's Literature Department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Up and Down sounds wonderful, Artem, and I am very glad to read that Eifman is coming here next year. I will definitely be going to see them, and I hope that Up and Down will be amongst the programmes you are planning to perform here! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Two more material about Eifman ballet (Russian language): Boris Eifman's interview to "Komsomolskaia pravda" newspaper: http://www.kp.ru/daily/26362.4/3243249/ "Around "Rodin" from Belorussian magazine "Kultprosvet" http://kultprosvet.by/opyit/reczenzii/vokrug_rodena by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's literature department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Next week: "Onegin" on St Petersburg Alexandrinsky theater 6 & 7 Aprile, 20:00. This is last theater's performance in Russia before American tour. by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's literature department 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share Posted April 6, 2015 As part of a big North American tour Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg is going to bring a performance about the Jazz Age to the United States St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet company is preparing to start a big tour in Canada and the United States that will take place from April 15 to June 14, 2015. In April, the Company will perform in Montreal, Toronto, and Minneapolis. In May, Eifman Ballet will visit Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington, and in June – Costa Mesa and Los Angeles. The upcoming tour is going to be the longest North American tour of the St. Petersburg company in its history. As part of the Canadian leg of the tour Eifman Ballet, for the first time in the Land of the Maple Leaf, will present the internationally acclaimed ballet Anna Karenina. The American audience will see ballets Rodin and Up & Down – the premiere of 2015. The ballet about the great French sculptor enjoyed immense success in the USA during the previous North American tour of the Company in spring 2013. ‘Of the ballet choreographers making narrative works for major stages, Russian Romantic Boris Eifman is virtually the only one totally in touch with the 21st century… Eifman outpaces the zeitgeist,’ Los Angeles Times wrote then. This year Rodin will be presented in Minneapolis, Boston, Washington, and Los Angeles – the cities where the ballet has not been performed yet. The highlight of the tour program will be the American premiere of Up & Down. The new ballet by Boris Eifman plunges audience into the atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties. It premiered in Saint Petersburg in January, 2015. In February, the ballet was triumphantly presented at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, as well as in Bratislava. The spectators of Riga saw Up & Down in March. ‘The Russian company bringing the ballet about the Jazz Age to the USA is an extraordinary event. I believe that the ballet ‘Up & Down’, very well received by European audience, will find its way into the hearts of American dance fans, who genuinely love and know the art of our theatre,’ Boris Eifman says. The ballet of the Saint Petersburg choreographer will be premiered in Chicago, New York and Costa Mesa. Eifman Ballet will perform at the iconic venues of North America. In particular, in Montreal, the Saint Petersburg Company will be received at Place des Arts – the largest cultural complex in Canada. The American leg of the tour will be held at New York City Center, the Segerstrom Center for the Arts (Costa Mesa), The Music Center (Los Angeles), and other well-known venues that are recognized as ‘places of power’ of contemporary artistic life. The promoter of the North American tour of Eifman Ballet is Ardani Artists Management – a long-term partner of the Company, celebrating its 25th Anniversary in the 2014-2015 season. The full schedule of the St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet’s tour in Canada and the United States: http://eifmanballet.com/en/schedule/2015/04 Eifman Ballet thanks VTB, the General Sponsor of the production of Up & Down About the productions Anna Karenina Set in 2005 to the music of Tchaikovsky this ballet is one of the most successful productions in Eifman Ballet’s repertoire. It has been performed to critical and public acclaim in Russia, USA, Australia, UK, Germany, Holland, Spain, France and many other countries. In his Anna Karenina Boris Eifman focuses on the Anna/Karenin/Vronsky love triangle and creates a brilliant example of a theatrical form of psychoanalysis showing the terrible inner struggle between love and lust that’s experienced by the central character. ‘In the ‘Anna Karenina’ novel one will find a plunge into the psychological world of the chief character and also a psycho-erotic interpretation of her personality. For me Anna was sort of a ‘shape shifter’ because two persons lived within her: externally she was a high society lady known to her husband Karenin, to her son and to everyone around. The other one was a woman immersed into the world of passions,’ Boris Eifman says. Rodin The premiere was held in St Petersburg in 2011. The ballet is set to music by 19th century French composers Jules Massenet, Maurice Ravel, and Camille Saint-Saёns and is dedicated to the creative work and fate of the great sculptors Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Rodin’s student, lover, and muse. The production was presented with a great success at the major venues of New York, Paris, London, Moscow, Budapest, Athens, Prague and of many other cities. Margaret Willis from Bachtrack says: ‘The French artist, Auguste Rodin sculpted with clay. Russian choreographer, Boris Eifman sculpts with bodies. Both are master craftsmen at their art and their differing styles have similarly produced memorable images of beauty and brilliance.’ Hedy Weiss from the Chicago Sun-Times describes Rodin as ‘audacious, inventive and stunningly beautiful’ production. Up & Down This new ballet by Boris Eifman set to the music by George Gershwin, Franz Schubert and Alban Berg is the quintessence of the choreographer’s psychoanalytic research. The semantic space of the performance encompassed between two oppositely directed vectors of the plot (the degradation of the talented young doctor and the ascension of his wife and patient), is turned into a field for surrealistic experiments. Eifman depicts the disintegration of characters’ consciousness, bringing their nightmares and delusions to the surface. The characters’ ups and downs take place in the magnificent Jazz Age – the unstoppable feast of life; the era of freedom, sensuality, and hedonism, masterfully recreated by Boris Eifman and his dancers. The production was highly appreciated by Ariane Bavelier from Le Figaro. ‘Dance is a jewel, expressive and delicate, playing with the classics and Charleston; artists are handsome, beautiful and well-proportional like supermodels,’ states the dance critic. Graham Watts, Chairman of Critics' Circle Dance Section in the UK, who attended one of theSt. Petersburg performances of Up & Down says about Boris Eifman: ‘There is no better story-telling choreographer around today. His ballets will work in France and America, just as well as they do in Russia (where Eifman is revered).’ Boris Eifman on his recent production: ‘The ballet ‘Up & Down’ is a tragic and bright chronicle of a person’s spiritual death. The story about how a dream of happiness turns into a disaster, and an externally beautiful and carefree life flowing to the rhythms of jazz – into a nightmare.’ You can download the HD images of Eifman Ballet’s Anna Karenina, Rodin and Up & Down via the following link: http://goo.gl/sI1Ag8 by Artem Kirpichenok, Eifman ballet's literature department 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Good luck with the tour to USA. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 I wonder if Eifman Ballet will be touring Japan one day, it has been so long since they came here. Eifman's Anna Karenina is in the repertoire of National Ballet of Japan (and some dancers from the company guested), and that was very popular here. Hope the company will come here in the not so far future! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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