Thanks, Catherine, for your comments on the Mariinsky and Paris styles. I join you in hoping that the interaction between the two great and historic companies will be a fine one.
The Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers was posted about a week ago.
http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/pla ... /7/2_1900/(much thanks to ElenaK at Dansomanie for gathering information about this)
Quite happily Maxim Petrov will be presenting his third work. His previous two, “Cinema” and “Ballet No. 2 to A. Tsfasman's Score” (now part of the Mariinsky repertoire) were Workshop highlights for me. Also of particular interest, Andrei Merkuriev (Bolshoi, formerly Mariinsky) will be choreographing a work.
Not included so far this year is the young Vaganova student, Maxim Sevagin, whose two works were presented at the previous Workshops. His first, “Hungarian Rhapsody,” was perhaps the most enjoyable and interesting piece by a young Russian choreographer that I’ve seen at any of the Festivals. I would also include the two works by Maxim Petrov as being favorites.
I’ve not been able to find Maxim Sevagin’s “Hungarian Rhapsody” on the internet but this is apparently the first larger piece that he ever did from 2012 at the Vaganova. I think that it’s charming and very finely done.
“Summer” from “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKW1QuomTsw(posted at his site)
He seems to work only in the classical style, but his efforts are fresh and timely. From looking at his personal page on the internet he has a broad scope of interest, including break-dancing, so we may be seeing some very interesting things. He will probably always have a Vaganova/Mariinsky sensitivity, whether using purely classical style or not, which should make him very special.
Added comment:
This is another video from Maxim Sevagin’s personal page. Although the work is attributed to Olga Lobovkina, whom I believe is also a Vaganova student, it would seem to be a duel effort. It’s modern but it has Maxim Sevagin’s use of structure. He also dances in it (blond dancer in the middle). It shows that Vaganova students can handle contemporary quite well. It also shows their fineness, which shines through in many Mariinsky modern takes, such as those from George Balanchine or Angelin Preljocaj’s “Le Parc.”
http://vk.com/videos146098119?z=video14 ... _146098119(you may have to try several times to get it to work)