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Modern Ballet "International Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival" Modern Dance Ballet of Boris Eifman. Ballet "Roden"
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Schedule for "International Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival" Modern Dance Ballet of Boris Eifman. Ballet "Roden" 2022

Choreography: Boris Eifman
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Composer: Jules Massenet
Light Designer: Gleb Filshtinskiy
Scenography: Zinovy Margolin

Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra

Premiere of this production: 22 November 2011, Saint-Petersburg

Libretto by Boris Eifman
Choreography: Boris Eifman
Set Designer: Zinoviy Margolin
Costume Designer: Olga Shaishmelashvili
Lighting Designers: Gleb Filshtinsky, Boris Eifman

The production participates in the Golden Mask National Festival.

New ballet of Boris Eifman "Rodin" is dedicated to life and creative work of great sculptors Auguste Rodin and his apprentice, lover and muse Camille Claudel.
The story of their passionate relationship is full of drama. For 15 years Rodin and Claudel had been one sensual and creative body. But their breakup dealt a death blow to Camille’s mental health and marked the beginning of her destruction. Almost forgotten, isolated from the outside world, vegetating in misery, Claudel goes out of her mind. Her obsession about the deliberate conspiracy against her, of which she considered Rodin the main participant, has been a permanent torture for the woman’s mind depressed by her mental disease. For the whole of 30 years she had to spend her life in a mental asylum, where Camille died in 1943, forgotten and left by everyone. The "Rodin" ballet of Boris Eifman is a massive artistic utterance about the tragic nature of life of geniuses. With the help of unique body language of the modern psychological ballet, which the choreographer had sharpened skillfully in his previous performances ("Onegin", "The Seagull", "Anna Karenina", "Russian Hamlet" and others), Eifman not only presents a new conception of the world of human passions studied masterfully by Rodin and Claudel in their works, but also creates a masterpiece dedicated to the incomprehensible mystery of the process of creation.

Boris Eifman:  "Life and love of Rodin and Claudel is an amazing story of two artists, in an incredibly dramatic alliance of which everything interlaced: passion, hatred, artistic jealousy. Spiritual and energetic interchange of two sculptors is a unique phenomenon: living together with Rodin, Camille was not only inspiring him, helping to find a new style and to create masterpieces, but also was going through the impetuous development of her own talent, actually, she was transforming into a great master.

After her breakup with Rodin, Claudel begins to plunge into the darkness of insanity. The soul of a poor woman is burnt to ashes with the pathological hatred to her former teacher and lover man, who had stolen, in Camille’s opinion, her life and gift. Rodin’s longing for his muse, torments of his conscience and delusion of Camille, or the insane Erinye, which her ruthless destiny had turned her to, the delusion caused by her mental disease and full of sick obsessions – all of these are reflected in the new ballet.

With the help of body language we talk in our performance about passion, internal struggle, despair – about all of those life phenomena of human spirit, which are brilliantly expressed by Rodin and Camille in bronze and marble. To turn a moment frozen in stone into an irrepressible sensuous stream of body movements is what I was striving for when creating this new ballet performance.

"Rodin" is a contemplation about the unreasonable price which geniuses have to pay for creation of eternal masterpieces, and also about those torments and mysteries of creation process which will always disturb minds of artists ".



BORIS EIFMAN is one of the few, if not the only Russian choreographer, who continued his active creative work for decades. Perhaps none of his contemporaries can take pride in such achievements. There are more than forty performances on the director’s account. He was the Laureate of the theatrical award of Saint-Petersburg “Golden Soffitto” five times, received the independent prize “Triumph”, the State Prize of Russia “For contribution in the development of modern arts”, the higher spiritual award of Russian children – the Order “Peace and Harmony”, the Order “Arts Cavalier of France”, the People’s Artist of Russia title and many other prizes and titles.

The choreographer was born in Siberia, finished a ballet college and the department of choreography of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Conservatoire. In 1977 he organized Leningrad New Ballet (today called “Saint-Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre”), the only individually managed theatre in Russia, developing the art of modern choreography. He did not only create an original style, which absorbed the achievements of new time art and which is based on the classical school, but also brought up a team of kindred spirit, for whom no unsolvable tasks exist
The diversity of genres in his repertoire is truly impressive: chamber ballets ("Autographs", "Metamorphoses"), ballets bouffe ("The Mad March Day or the Marriage of Figaro", "The Twelfth Night", "Love Plots"), ballets-parables ("Legend"), fairytale ballets ("Firebird", "Pinocchio"). His theatre also focuses on productions based on the classical works of the world literature. Eifman was the first who used Dostoevsky’s novels in ballet. His "Idiot" has become one of the highlights of the cultural life. It was followed by the "Duel" (adaptation of Kuprin’s novel), "Master and Margarita" (based on Bulgakov) and "Murderes" (based on Zola's novel "Therese Raquin"). Among his most recent works that have been already recognized worldwide are "Requiem", "Tchaikovsky", "Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman", "The Karamazovs", "Red Giselle", "My Jerusalem", "The Russian Hamlet", "Don Juan or Moliere Passions", "WHO is WHO", "Musagete", "Anna Karenina", "The Seagull", "Onegin".

Boris Eifman is a choreographer-philosopher and thinker. He is concerned by the problems of the modern world. He is thrilled by the secrets of creativity and the magic of geniuses, which uncover themselves in his interpretation of the fates of Tchaikovsky, Spesivtseva and Moliere. He makes experiments with such dark and fearful sphere as human psyche (“Idiot”, “Murderers”, “Don Quixote or Fantasies of a Madman”, “Russian Hamlet” and “Anna Karenina”), creating the images of stage psychoanalysis. He strives for showing extreme states of human mind, regarding his heroes` madness not as an illness but as their ability to penetrate into another worlds. The choreographer pulls apart the limits of his imagination with the help of his heroes` fantasies, deepening in the questions of spiritual and philosophic life of humankind, which interest him most. The ballets “Russian Hamlet”, “Anna Karenina”, "The Seagull", "Onegin" are the examples of it.

Creating his own style Eifman worked at various dancing systems. The theatre became a kind of laboratory for him. The choreographer did not limit himself with the frames of a purely ballet performance, since the most important thing for him is theatricality. His plays are synthetic shows, revealing new forms and new principles of dancing action. Boris Eifman has created his theatre – a theatre of unconcealed emotional feelings.

Modern Dance Ballet of Boris Eifman



 

SYNOPSIS

ACT ONE

A mental asylum, where patients wander like somnambulists, is the last shelter for Camille Claudel, a lover of the great Rodin. After a visit from the sculptor, she feels nothing but pain and despair. In his memories, Rodin returns in his past...
Sculptor’s workshop. Here is the place where Rodin’s wild fantasies come to life through clay and bronze. With her appearance, Camille, a young model, starts a fire in the heart of Rodin, who is in his middle age.
It is intolerable for Camille to wake up in the mental asylum. However, her sufferings at the hands of the other female patients, who beat and abuse her, are nothing compared to the horrible emptiness that enlaced Camille’s soul.
The life of old Rodin is full of grief. The tenderness of his devoted Rose is heavier than iron bonds. The sculptor is buried in his thoughts, where he finds himself an impetuous creator again. Camille is by his side, with her passion and gift of genius that give him power. Rodin’s indifference makes Rose suffer.
Camille’s coming insanity is already near: her mind becomes bedimmed with an obsession. But still her life is an endless vortex, in the very center of which is Rodin. Without hesitation, she gives her genius to her beloved and her master. Envy of Camille as an artist grows in the sculptor’s soul.
Rodin wins his success. Camille, his mate and co-author of his works, is left behind as an unknown witness of another’s glory.

ACT TWO

The Gates of Hell are created in sufferings. Camille works devotedly with Rodin. Rose follows Rodin constantly, which makes him go through torment and repentance. Happy moments of his life revive in his mind: young Rose, beautiful and lovely bacchante, whom Rodin meets at a grape festival.
Camille’s relationship with her master becomes a torture for her. In a blaze of despair, she escapes from her beloved. A passing affair with a random lover cannot heal her scars. She has no other choice than to return to Rodin, who is her destiny and her curse.
The sculptor is embarrassed. His heart is torn between burning passion for one woman and sincere affection for another one. How can he break this vicious circle of incessant torments?
Camille is coming closer and closer to the edge of the abyss. Her work on Clotho, fearful anthem to ruthless Fate, exhausts her mental state completely. Distressed by critics, Camille destroys her sculpture in a blaze of rage.
Camille suffers from nightmares. She sees Rodin as an ugly beast who is guilty of all her tortures. The poor woman has no way to escape from this insanity, which captures her mind and soul.

© St.Petersburg Eifman Ballet.




Schedule for "International Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival" Modern Dance Ballet of Boris Eifman. Ballet "Roden" 2022


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