Salieri variations

Salieri Variations look like a courtesan game, the director and the performers rush into. Samodurov serves the classical moves (.) but turns them inside out; he accelerates them or changes the angle. Even the most experienced performers cannot remain dead serious here. But they find out that ballet is not a part of ‘classical heritage’, but a natural means of communication.

Remember the immortal phrase by Sergei Diaghilev «Jean, étonne-moi!» — so, the artistic director of the Ekaterinburg Ballet, Vyacheslav Samodurov, surprised the audience very much, not only with his twenty-five-minute performance, but also with the fact that in two years of honest work a choreographer can do with a ballet company of not even class B; how he can change its silhouette, give names to the unknown soloists, deprive the corps de ballet of their inferiority complex.