Slava Samodurov

Golden Mask 2020 — best work of ballet‑master

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biography

He performed as a principal dancer at the world’s top ballet companies — at the Mariinsky theatre, the Netherlands National ballet, the Royal Ballet of the Great Britain. In 2006 he started his career in choreography. He worked with Russia’s and world’s best theatres: the Covent Garden («Trip trac» to music by Shostakovich in 2010), Mikhaylovsky theatre («Minor sonatas» to music by Scarlatti in 2010), the Bolshoy theatre («Undine» by Henze in 2016), Perm theatre of opera and ballet («Le Baiser de la Fee» by Stravinsky in 2017).

1974

Slava
Samodurov

october

2018

Bright costumes, high-tech décor, movements honed to the smallest detail — artists of the Opera Theater have been preparing for this premiere for over a year. Today is the general run. The new production is a fantasy based on the libretto of the forgotten ballets by Marius Petipa.

february

2022

This is a grand curatorial project, the meaning and meanings of which go far beyond the narrow workshop framework, (.) but at the same time far from any kind of snobbery, a full-blooded spectacle, a spectacular show, paradoxically sharpened by the audience success: have we seen for a long time a curtain raising Before each of the three acts was accompanied by a burst of applause?

october

2016

A bright, flying, light, multicolored performance in which children will find something to admire and something to surprise, adults have something to think about.

may

2016

Samodurov was able to discern what was contained in the music, but remained unspoken. He managed to put an independent, but very strongly connected with music and with the time of its writing, a performance (.) Performance-monument to the freedom-loving soul in a totalitarian society.

february

2022

There is no ‘ballerina on stage’ and ‘ballerinas behind the curtains’ here, there is a lonely woman, driven crazy by work and exhausted by the everlasting conventionality of her existence. And the monologue of Mrs. Alexandrova under the watchful eye of the searchlight is utterly striking.

february

2022

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.

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biography

The Order of the King [2018]

Paquita [2018]

Snow Queen [2016]

Romeo & Juliet [2016]

The Curtain [2015]

Salieri variations [2013]

Ural Opera Ballet Fest [2018]

Dance-platform [2014]

The Order of the King ^[2018]

Paquita ^[2018]

Snow Queen ^[2016]

Romeo & Juliet ^[2016]

The Curtain ^[2015]

Salieri variations ^[2013]

Ural Opera Ballet Fest ^[2018]

Dance-platform ^[2014]