The ballet «In dim figures» by Maxim Sevagin was staged for the first time in the autumn of 2022 at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Tchaikovsky.
«I always wanted to put the play on baroque music. Baroque music has an incredible feature – it is very danceable. The melodies, polyphony and clear structure of the composition help the imagination to work and guide it. I decided to look for something new for myself and for the ballet stage and found two absolutely stunning string concertos by Antonio Vivaldi», – says the choreographer.
«In dim figures» is an ode to the director’s love for ballet, a search for eternal symbols and images of ballet art, «appearing from a huge space options and going back in the dark».
There are 9 performers the play – five girls and four boys – and six musical parts consisting of ensemble fragments, a duet, a quartet and a trio.
Andrei Kaidanovsky presented to the public and critics his work «Tea or coffee» in 2016 as part of the Crossing Point project of the Musical Theatre. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. The production immediately gained great success, was repeatedly resumed on the Small Stage, and the choreographer himself began to regularly collaborate with the theater.
The ballet «Autodance», created by the famous Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal in collaboration with Guy Behar, was called «exquisite highly intellectual entertainment» by the press. Dancers and dancers seem to be genderless, the focus shifts to the movement of their legs. In the space of «Autodance» dance, the technique of its implementation and music in the «techno» genre organically merge: this is an integral, visually rich and precisely built spectacle.
