Dramatic productions filled with feelings, avant-garde discoveries in the art of dance, permeated by the achievements of classical Russian choreography - such is the theater of Boris Eifman today.
People's Artist of the Russian Federation, winner of many honorable and prestigious awards and prizes, Eifman created his own "Ballet Theater" back in 1977.
At first it was the “Ballet Academy”, which over time, thanks to the efforts of the artistic director, turned into a world-famous, admirable, lively and constantly developing theater, into a real ballet galaxy.
Feelings and reflections in dance plastic
Boris Eifman once said: “What I do can be called a dance of emotions, a free dance, a new language in which classic, modern, ecstatic impulses, and much more are intertwined ...”
It was not easy for the troupe's artists when a new choreographic language of dance was created together with the ballet theater.
In this language, Eifman speaks with a person who is able to feel and reflect, passing through the plastic forms a stream of emotional and philosophical orientation. Visual images can evoke a spiritual response in the viewer, striving after the artist’s imagination to comprehend the unknown.
According to the literary canvas
The most recognizable feature, the cornerstone of all the performances of the ballet theater in St. Petersburg was their literary basis, the plot of the production, which in its own way interprets the famous works of classics.
The literary outline of the play allows, according to Eifman, to discover new sides in a long time familiar. Its reading, the author’s view and the original interpretation of the historical vicissitudes and fates of famous genius people give the audience truly unforgettable dramatic performances about Moliere, Tchaikovsky, Rodin ...
The new accents in the story told through dance work wonders:
- it is always deep psychologism;
- visible forms;
- encrypted dreams and fantasies that mix fictions and reality on the stage, metaphorically revealing the depth of the characters of the characters of the production.
The future of the theater
Eifman's ballet in St. Petersburg is constantly evolving. For more than thirty-five years, it has been pleasing residents and guests of the northern capital with masterpieces of choreographic art.
However, for many years the theater did not have its own stage.
The resolution of the Governor of St. Petersburg in January 2011 approved the creation of a new educational institution - the Dance Academy. At the end of 2012, the construction of the building for the Academy was completed, which is located in the quarter between Bolshoi Prospect of the Petrograd Side and Bolshaya Pushkarskaya, Liza Chaykina and Vvedenskaya Streets.
Training rooms, teacher's offices, utility rooms of the Academy are located on 12,000 square meters. m. The building has 14 ballet halls, student accommodation, conference rooms, a complex with a swimming pool for sports and physical unloading, a modern dining room, a media library, and a medical center.
The Academy and Ballet in St. Petersburg is an example of a socially oriented project. This is a real laboratory of creativity, playing an undoubted and beneficial role in the cultural life of St. Petersburg.