#eifman ballet

[lovelyballetandmore]

Konstantin Savchenko | Eifman Ballet | Photo by Evgeny Matveev

#konstantin savchenko #eifman ballet #balletphotography #ballet stage boots #stage boots #leather pants

[thingsdavidlikes]

L1031605 by Irakly Shanidze https://flic.kr/p/FXwkQL

#photography #ballet #ballerina #eifman #distagon3514zm #Irakly Shanidze

[gorbigorbi]

Natalia Povoroznyuk, graduated from Vaganova Ballet Academy, former principal at Eifman Ballet. Currently teacher and choreographer.

Photographer Levente Szabó

[mylittlepond]

"If I could only burn this thing out of me!" she cried. "I didn't want to be different"

"She is...distraught. She cries out against her brother one moment, mourns him the next"

"Without a vision of the future, I could fail. Oh, what magic I could perform if only I could see as Paul saw! Not for me the bitterness which prescient visions brought."

"A leaden sensation pulsed through Jessica's body and she heard the surf of her own life within her ears. The rumors were true! Horrible! Horrible! Alia had fallen into the forbidden way. The evidence was there for the initiate to read. Abomination!"

// Devotion and Heartbreak, film by Roger Guàrdia, Performance by Eifman Ballet Company, Blood Wedding Sheva Theatre 2016, MO24 Mount Olympus Theatre Jan Fabre, Uma Thurman in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1998, Marie Claude Pietragalla, "Liebestod" Angelica Liddell, "Les Pecheurs De Perles" 2016 by the Metropolitan Opera //

#dune #dune aesthetic #dune edit #alia atreides #st alia of the knife #dune messiah #children of dune

[theloverstomb]

Russian Dancer from Boris Eifman Ballet Company, 1988

by Deborah Turbeville

#Deborah Turbeville #a feeling

[tikitania]

Grand Ballet's New Star

The competition series, Bolshoi Ballet, is still unfolding and I didn't pay much attention because I assumed that the fix was in. Surely, Maria Iliushkina and Even Capitaine were going to win it — they're Mariinsky soloists. No brainer. But the 19-year-old Daniil Potapsev, a recent graduate of the Eifman School now dancing lead roles at the Bolshoi, looks incredible.

#ballet #youtube #bolshoi ballet #daniil potaptsev #russian ballet #Youtube

[ballet-symphonie]

MT Roster Changes

Artists who left the ballet troupe (over two dozen):

Premieres: Igor Kolb and Xander Parish.

Soloists: Anastasia Matvienko, May Nagahisa, Ekaterina Chebykina, Victor Caxieta, and Vasily Tkachenko.

Coryphee: Mikhail Barkidzhija, Ilya Zhivoy, and Vsevolod Mayevsky.

Corps de ballet: Lizi Avsajanishvilli, Jasmine Henry, Anastasia Demidova, Veronika Selivanov, Anastasia Smirnova, Anna Tolmacheva (Lavrinenko), Alexei Boyarinov, Oleg Demchenko, Ervin Zagidullin, Maxim Zenin, Oleg Ligay, Sergey Osminkin, Pavel Ostapenko, Jorge Palasirov and Konstantin Khachirov.

The ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater hired 13 graduates of the Academy of Russian Ballet named for A. Y. Vaganova:

Maria Vetchaninova, Polina Goltyaeva, Anastasia Zinchenko, Apollinaria Murzho, Aigul Nugaeva, Anastasia Sukhami, Sofia Khoreva, Elina Chernykh, Maria Shevela, Miroslav Arbatov, Georgy Klopstov, Georgy Khrebtov and Marco Maisto.

And 5 graduates of the Boris Eifman Dance Academy:

Valeria Kalinina, Nikita Adushev, Evgeny Alimpiev, Arseniy Kulikov and Egor Khazdov.

Some observations:

Marko Juusela is not listed as a departed artist, despite him now appearing on the official roster of the Polish National Ballet here.

Aaron Osawa-Horowitz's name is also absent, seems he really is staying?

8 boys were hired, notably, half of them are from Eifman and not VBA

*Information translated from MT's VK Channel

#marinsky ballet #mariinsky theatre #mariinsky #ballet #russian ballet #ballerina

[taramysweetlove]

♕Feminine Charm♕ | Vaganova Ballet Academy, Anastasia Krasnoshekova & Boris Eifman

[dance-world]

Evgeny Sergeev - Eifman Ballet - photo by  Karina Romanova • Фотограф СПБ

#evgeny sergeev #eifman ballet #russian ballet dancers #karina romanova #Фотограф СПБ #dance #ballet #danseur #ballerino #tanzer #bailarín #dancer #boys of ballet #ballet men

[lovelyballetandmore]

Evgeny Grachev | Eifman Ballet

#evgeny grachev #eifman ballet

[dancer-male-dancers]

Alexey Boyarinov - Eifman Ballet photo by Mariya Donets

#ballet dancer #alexey boyarinov #eifman ballet #mariya donets

[lenskij]

Onegin

by St Petersburg Eifman Ballet

This post will reveal that I do not know how to talk about dance*. I will attempt to do it anyway, because I really, really want to tell you all about Onegin.

(*as if I know how to talk about opera)

The Eifman Ballet company is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Forget classical ballet - this blows everything out of the water. The dancers do incredible things with their bodies and they make it look easy. The dance is insanely expressive, dramatic, sensual - I’m watching the recording again and I am losing my mind. I don’t know how to explain it: you’re on the edge of your seat the entire show, and when it’s over, you realise that you’ve forgotten to breathe - that’s how intense it is!

My favourite of their shows is, of course, Onegin. They've transposed the story to be set in 1990s Russia, at the fall of the Soviet Union. I’ve often complained about productions failing to transpose Eugene Onegin into modern times, however, Eifman & Co knew exactly what they were doing. In this evil little essay, I will attempt to explain why they succeeded.

First of all: any costumer that dresses Onegin in red knows what’s up.

Second, I’m obsessed by the meta of Tatiana reading the Eugene Onegin novel:

But most importantly, what I love the most in this adaptation, is that they’ve successfully portrayed the relationship between Onegin and Lensky. They understood the essence of what those two were about - and so the duel, which firmly sets the novel in its time, did not end up being a problem when transposing the story into modern times. In fact, they understood Onegin and Lensky so well that they could get away with cutting the entire duel.

Instead, they had all the other ingredients in the conflict. First, we’ve got their friendship: Onegin and Lensky are close friends. Then, we’ve got the Larin sisters: Olga is Lensky’s girlfriend, and although Onegin spends some time flirting with Tatiana, he isn’t interested in her. Instead, he gets into a fight with Lensky (their relationship is riddled with conflict), and so, when Onegin arrives at the Larin party, he is determined: he’s going to flirt with Olga, to rile Lensky up.

And he succeeds. 

Only after Lensky’s death does Onegin realise what he’s done. That’s the key in their conflict: Onegin very determinedly pushes Lensky, and he doesn’t stop until it is too late. That’s what Onegin is about! He doesn’t anticipate the consequences of his actions until they bite him in the face!! And then he suffers for it!! He’s haunted by Lensky’s death!

This is the reason I love the Eugene Onegin novel. All problems Eugene faces were created by himself - all his pain and suffering were the consequences of his actions. He kills his best friend and for the rest of his life, he’s haunted by it, knowing full well he could - should! - not have done this.

I have barely mentioned Tatiana here - but I think I’ll have to save her for another post, this is already going long enough. Her journey through the story is completely different to the one Onegin is making, even if he’s the catalyst of her arc. The novel’s (or any adaptation’s) title can easily be changed into Tatiana Larina - the contents are still the same, but it reads differently with Tatiana as the title character.

What about you? Have you seen the Eifman Onegin, and what are your thoughts? What is your favourite non-opera Eugene Onegin adaptaion? Do you have examples of successful EO modernisations? How would YOU modernise EO?

#fun fact: this is the first adaptation i saw of eo #back in the day mom bought tickets to this show and because i am a nerd i read the book first in preparation #maybe that's why i love this so much #you don't forget your first #been a fan of onegin since #i think i first saw the opera only a year after? something like that? #this all happened in the hazy past of my early teens #don't take my word for it lol #y'all should see this! and any other eifman show you can get your hands on #this is not as much an essay as this is a rambling #which is why this is tagged as #liz rambles #thank you for reading <3 #eugene onegin #ballet #eifman ballet #onegin

[gorbigorbi]

"Up & Down", Eifman Ballet

World Premiere, St. Petersburg, January 27, 2015.

[galina-ulanova]

Daria Reznik and Sergey Volobuev in Anna Karenina (Eifman Ballet, 2018)

#ballet #daria reznik #sergey volobuev #eifman ballet #anna karenina

[tikitania]

the st petersburg national ballet theatre is touring where I live and they're advertising it as "featuring mariinsky's former soloists" 😭😭 that's their big tagline for this tour, mariinsky is bolded and everything, I feel a little bad

Now I want to know what soloists are dancing with them! A while back, maybe during deep Covid, I got hooked on a ballet reality show that followed a Russian touring company (Russian Ballet Theater.) All the behind-the-scenes drama was fun to watch. But it also was apparent that touring life was tough, very unglamorous, and yet they danced their hearts out on stage. This unknown (to me) company had good dancers! It really hit home that for every 20-30 kids who graduate each year from Vaganova, only a few get into the Mariinsky. And there are several other big name schools: Moscow, Eifman, Perm and many not-so-well known schools. The ones who go pro end up somewhere. Russian ballet has a deep bench! If you dive into this…have fun!!!

#ballet #russian ballet #ballet a la russe #reality tv #youtube #endless talent

[balletomaneblog]

It seems like Sofya Maimula and Ekaterina Varlamova are going to be the most featured of the newest batch of Bolshoi dancers coming in this season. Maimula is set to debut Emeralds Pas de Trois and Shyrin’s Friends and Varlamova is set to debut both of these roles as well as Shepherdesses in Spartacus and Four Swans in Swan Lake. 

Sofya Maimula has already been featured as Cupid in The Flames of Paris during her final year at the Bolshoi Ballet School.

Ekaterina Varlamova was a strong competitor in IBC Moscow last spring, earning herself a shared third prize in the senior women’s solo division while a student at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy. 

Both of these talented young ballerinas clearly have bright futures! 

#bolshoi ballet #bolshoi #young dancers #ekaterina varlamova #sofya maimula #ballerina