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  • On July 13, on her birthday, Diana Vishneva will teach a masterclass herself.
    July 8-13. Summer Intensive at Studio Context, Saint Petersburg.

    Running the intensive program one-two weeks-long twice a year became a tradition for Diana Vishneva's Studio in Saint Petersburg. Every time they gather outstanding coaches, ballet artists, and choreographers to lead the masterclasses. The participants are both professionals and amateurs, dancing to express themselves.

    The upcoming summer event will take six days. It comprises different blocks participants may choose to follow: classical dance classes and morning yoga, classes for the children, contemporary dance masterclasses.

    On July 13, on her birthday, Diana Vishneva will teach a masterclass herself. The participants will do a classical dance routine and then will practice one ballet variation with the prima ballerina.

    Please send a request through the official website (studiocontext.ru) to get the information on the participation, the full program, and the list of the coaches.

  • Interview – Diana Vishneva on her new 'Imprint in Motion' filmed at Moscow's Pushkin Museum
    The pandemic hasn't diminished the artistic drive and creativity of international ballet superstar Diana Vishneva. Even in the time of COVID-19, the prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre and founder and artistic director of the contemporary choreography festival "Context," Vishneva finds herself on a perpetual quest to explore and expand the context of what she sees as dance.

    Last fall, her festival (thanks to its new digital platform) was one of the rare highlights in the mostly dormant world of dance, which saw nearly all live performances cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic.

    Recently, Vishneva unveiled a new work – a multi-media project Imprint in Motion ("Слепок" in Russian), which was made specifically for film and premiered in limited release on March 31, in Moscow and on April 7, in St. Petersburg and will be subsequently screened in more than 30 Russian cities.

  • Dancing in the museum: Diana Vishneva's cross-media project 'Imprint in Motion'
    Gramilano: Diana Vishneva's latest project – Imprint in Motion – is a cross-media project fusing the fine arts, contemporary dance, music, and film making, and focuses on the human body in a variety of forms.
  • 'Imprint in Motion' premiere in Russia
    The tickets for the first screenings of the "Imprint in Motion" film will be available starting from March 31. This is the joint cross-media project of the international festival of contemporary choreography Context. Diana Visheneva, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and Aksenov Family Foundation. The premiere will take place at the Karo Oktyabr cinema in Moscow. Then the film will be available in other Russian cities. The first screenings schedule: St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Kazan, Ufa, Voronezh, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod.
    'Imprint in Motion' will be also available online at a later date.
  • International Women's Day
    International Women's Day is different for everyone as every woman has her reasons for pride, inspiration, and joy. But there is one thing that unites us all on this day. Spring gives us a special feeling of exciting anticipation. It is akin to what the artists experience on the day of their premiere or what the theatre audience experience on the eve of the long-awaited performance. As art fills humankind with the beauty, desire for creativity, gives freedom and hope, the same way the Spring opens up bright emotions in us and awakens new ideas.
    We wish you this spring to reveal in yourself many new verges of beauty and forms of harmony!
  • The "Imprint in Motion" film
    On February 18, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), Context. Diana Vishneva and Aksenov Family Foundation presented their joint project of a large scale at the press conference at the museum. The "Imprint in Motion" film brought together art, contemporary choreography, modern music, and cinematographic art. Diana Vishneva acts as the main character. Invited choreographers are the finalists of the festival's annual competition over the years.
    The festival contributed to the development of the art concept and production. The first screenings of the film start on March 31, 2021.
  • Diana Vishneva to participate in Cartier Art Dialogues conference at the State Hermitage Museum
    On February 21, Cartier and the State Hermitage Museum organize a major conference Cartier Art Dialogues: Living heritage and cross-generation dialogue. Diana Vishneva takes part in the session "Rediscovering cinema, opera, theatre and classical ballet" alongside Mélanie Laurent, Golshifteh Farahani, Teodor Currentzis. Anita Gruntovskaya conducts the session as a moderator. The session starts at 14:00. Online broadcast is available.
  • The Diana Vishneva Foundation wishes Victor Gennadýevich Vishnev a happy anniversary!
    The Diana Vishneva Foundation wishes Victor Gennadýevich Vishnev a happy anniversary! Victor Gennadýevich Vishnev has been the Foundation's irreplaceable director since its establishment ten years ago.
    We can always rely on him, and we are grateful for his support, critics, and judgment. Victor Gennadýevich conducts the team's spirit to maintain the highest levels of responsibility and probity.
    Thanks to his attentive and precise governance, the documents are always in order, the projects are implemented to the highest standards. At last, we appreciate his wit. He is a real gentleman providing support and care to his family.
    The team wishes health, strength, and inspiration for many projects ahead!
  • The year we are leaving behind was a year of the Diana Vishneva Foundation's anniversary
    For ten years of its existence, the Foundation has gone through several stages of its development while contributing to the progress of modern Russian culture. When we look back at 2002, we realize how a new reality made us transfer many of our projects to the online versions. It made us find new senses and helped to facilitate the process of development we previously thought to be more gradual. The most important conclusion we made was that it was right that art and dance had no borders and knew no limits. We held 14 events online, which gathered about 520,000 spectators.
    We would like to remember the highlights of the year and provide access to our projects.
  • TV channel Kultura broadcasts the evening dedicated to Maya Plisetskaya.
    On December 28, Russian TV Channel Kultura broadcasts the evening dedicated to Maya Plisetskaya recorded at the Bolshoi theatre. Diana Vishneva and Denis Savin participated with the Homage to Maya - new choreography by Alexei Ratmansky to the music by Camille Saint-Saëns arranged by Rodion Shchedrin.
  • Pre-New Year online-evening with Diana Vishneva
    On December 18, 20:00 the theatre event Timeless Dialogues: pre-New Year evening with Diana Vishneva will be held with the support of French cognac house Martell. The program includes Woman in a Room choreographed by Carolyn Carlson and pre-premiere screening of the Context Diana Vishneva festival's video project 2020. Everyone is invited, please follow the link to join us online.
  • 2020 video project premiere
    Year 2020. Emptiness or Freedom? Vacuum or infinity? Total nulling or a starting point? The end or a new beginning? The international festival of modern choreography Context. Diana presents the dance video project "2020." Diana Vishneva dances the lead role. Prima ballerina Diana Vishneva plunges into the exploration of new forms, uniting in one project a group of young professionals from different art areas. The project started as a reflection on personal experience associated with a new reality, and it grew into a message to all for the end of this difficult year.
  • 2021 Studio Context Winter intensive programme
    Studio Context will hold the Winter Intensive Program on January 4 - 8. The program consists of two blocks: practice and theory. The practical course comprises classical dance, yoga, pilates, contemporary dance classes, and master-classes with prominent artists and coaches. The theoretical part consists of three lectures. These five days will give a professional and amateur dancers something new to discover.

    The list the coaches includes: Anatoly Sidorov, Elvira Tarasova, Alexadra Iosifidi, Denis Matvienko, Nina Zmievets, Tatiana Bazhitova, Natalia Padalko, Valentina Kalinina, Ksenia Mikheeva, Pavel Glukhov, Lilia Burdinskaya, Ernest Nurgali, Vasko Nasonov, Maria Dudina, Alexandr Mescherin, and Diana Vishneva. Please check the official Studio website for the schedule.
  • The Fourth Season of the "Bolshoi Ballet" Program Has Begun
    The fourth season of the "Bolshoi Ballet" program on the Rossiya-Kultura channel has begun, and Diana Vishneva is on the panel of judges. The shows will air every Saturday at 5:30 pm. Read more

    Eight pairs of young ballet artists from various prominent academic theaters of Russia are participating in the project. Each competition day has a specific theme: the artists' specialties, classical and neoclassical dance, solos, modern foreign and Russian choreography, and others. The winners named at the conclusion of the program will receive a grand prize.
  • Premiere of the Film "BODY SOUND" by Studio Context
    At the BURO. NEW COOL festival, a premiere of the art film "BODY SOUND" was shown, a work that grew out of a summer workshop by the same name at Studio Context. The choreographer was Ksenia Mikheeva, the composer was Dima Anikin, and the videographer was Dmitry Nagovsky. At the center of the story is a game as the mechanism of changes in the world, physicality, and the interdependence of things in a new reality, a journey along the spiral of humanity's evolution toward immortality.
    Click link below to watch full film.
  • A New Project by the "Context. Diana Vishneva" Festival and Arzamas
    The "Context. Diana Vishneva" festival and the Arzamas educational platform have jointly released a course entitled "How ballet works at the premiere of the 'Schaherazade' performance." The project will allow participants to learn more about the performance, the process of its staging, and the history behind the subject. The creators of "Schaherazade" share their work principles and their secrets behind creating such a large-scale ballet production. The course is already available at the website Arzamas.academy and is the second joint project between Context and Arzamas.
  • Online showing of "Schaherazade"
    The "Context. Diana Vishneva" festival has had to postpone the series of Perm Opera and Ballet Theater performances of "The Jester" and "Schaherazade," staged by Alexey Miroshnichenko, to the spring of 2021. The pandemic situation and restrictions introduced in the Perm region have not allowed for the troupe to arrange tours in Moscow and St. Petersburg in November 2020 as originally planned.
    The performance of "Schaherazade" will still be shown in November, however. From the 18th to the 25th, viewers can go to live.contextfest.com and watch an exclusive recording of the 2019 premiere, in which Diana Vishneva dances a duet with Marcelo Gomes on the stage of the Perm theater.
  • Opening of the 8th "Context. Diana Vishneva" Festival
    October 14 marked the opening of the 8th "Context. Diana Vishneva" festival. The annual Evening of Russian Choreographers took place on the Gogol Center stage. For the first time, it was streamed on the festival's online platform at live.contextfest.com, set up especially for Context-2020. Almost 98,000 people watched the live stream in one evening.

    The evening's program featured works by the finalists of the Young Choreographer Competition: Nurbek Batulla from Kazan, Igor Bulytsyn from Yekaterinburg, Ernest Nurgali and Irina Sergeevna from St. Petersburg), and Olga Ryzhkova from Voronezh.

    Ernest Nurgali was the winner of the festival and was awarded the opportunity to apprentice with a foreign company or dance school, and he also received the audience choice award from online viewers in the "Beyond the Boundaries" category. Nurbek Batulla received the offline audience choice award.
  • Online Meeting with Carolyn Carlson
    As part of the 8th "Context. Diana Vishneva" festival, Diana held a virtual meeting with Carolyn Carlson, a highly accomplished choreographer and the founder and artistic director of the Parisian dance studio L'Atelier de Paris. A recording of the conversation will be available on the online platform of the "Context. Diana Vishneva" festival on October 29.
  • Alberto Alonso's "Carmen Suite"
    For the first time after seven months of social distancing, on October 6 Diana Vishneva will perform on her home stage of the Mariinsky Theater in Alberto Alonso's "Carmen Suite."
  • Diana Vishneva was Featured on the October Cover of Harper's
    Diana Vishneva was featured on the cover of the October issue of Harper's Bazaar. The story behind the cover was unique: a synthesis of the genres of contemporary art, dance, and photography in the eyes of Gueorgui Pinkhassov, an outstanding documentary photographic artist and the only Russian photographer with the Magnum Photos agency. The material will be continued in a digital format on the magazine's website.
  • Studio Context Marked Its Third Birthday and Immediately Launched Its Fourth Season
    Studio Context marked its third birthday and immediately launched its fourth season. This autumn the Studio will introduce additional activities and areas of practice. Special attention will be given to children's ballet groups. There will be activities for parents during the children's groups, Pilates, contemporary classes for children ages 5-6, and aerial stretching. Studio Context will continue offering training in an online format for those who cannot come to classes in St. Petersburg.
  • Dialogues with Diana Vishneva
    Contemplations about her life and profession, actions and choices, thoughts about the past and views of the future, unique behind-the-scenes stories... Diana Vishneva is launching a personal podcast called "In the Context of Time: Dialogues with Diana Vishneva."

    This project is a continuation of her series of live broadcasts of the same name that started during the coronavirus lockdown. The premiere episodes feature the most engaging excerpts from dialogues with Vladimir Malakhov, a world star and longstanding partner of Diana Vishneva; Alexey Miroshnichenko, one of the most prominent modern Russian choreographers; Maria Kochetkova and Daniil Simkin, representing a new generation of artists who have already risen to stardom; and legendary teacher Irina Kolpakova.

    The podcast is available in iTunes podcast, Google Podcasts, Yandex Music, Castbox, and Spotify.

    The project was supported by the Diana Vishneva Foundation and the Dialogue of Arts magazine
  • Bolshoi Ballet
    Diana Vishneva took part in the fourth season of the Bolshoi Ballet competition on the Rossiya-Kultura television channel. This project is a contest between 8 pairs of young ballet dancers from the country's leading theaters. Diana was on the judges' panel along with Farukh Ruzimatov, a People's Artist of Russia; Alexey Miroshnichenko, a choreographer and Honored Artist of Russia; and Denis Matvienko, the Artistic Director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. The TV program will be aired in the autumn of 2020.
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