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Women's Pavilion Inauguration Ceremony

On October 27, 2021, the Women's Pavilion was officially opened and inaugurated with the support of Cartier as part of one of the world's most renowned exhibitions - EXPO 2020, which is being held this year in Dubai. EXPO 2020 Dubai Women's Pavilion in collaboration with Cartier, is a project about women's roles and contributions in history, art, and science. It's main thesis: when women thrive, humanity thrives.
Diana Vishneva, being a friend of the House of Cartier, took part in the opening ceremony. On the stage of the Al Wasl Dome, together with Denis Savin, the premier of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, ballerina performed Alexei Ratmansky's production "Homage to Maya".
The music in the production is an arrangement of a melody from Camille Saint-Saens' "The Swan" composed by the significant Soviet and Russian composer, Rodion Shchedrin, husband to the late Maya Plisetskaya.
Trust is one of the leitmotifs of the performance. Two artists have trusted Diana Vishneva to manifest their thoughts, emotions, and memories of Plisetskaya on stage. Thus, one ballerina pays tribute to another. Through characteristic gestures, movements, and echoes from other famous ballet performances encoded in "Homage to Maya", a portrait of different generations results: ballerinas past and present.
Imprint in motion
Imprint in motion is a cross-media project fusing the fine arts, contemporary dance, music and film making. The project focuses on a human body in great variety of plastic forms whereas the space of the museum of Classic Art serves as the venue for this artistic experiment. Unfettered by the Word, fixed in sculptures or moving in dance, a human body reinterprets stories rooted in the history of West European civilization.
The creative team tried to meet its artistic goal by working out a visual representation for each period in the history of art represented in museum rooms. In Imprint in motion the choreographers aimed at living through a certain epoch and conveying the feelings evoked by an encounter with a certain piece of art. But the higher cause was to find a plastic embodiment of redefined themes in art and the hottest forms for their artistic statements.In this creative quest the young Russian choreographers, finalists of Context Young Choreographers Competition, and contemporary composers immerse themselves into the epochs of Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and bring into being their own insight in each historic period. Diana Vishneva, the leading character, became a guide between epochs and styles of dance.
Videoproject '2020'
2020. Emptiness or Freedom? Vacuum or infinity? Total nulling or a starting point? The end or a new beginning? This year posed questions that have not yet been answered. It taught us to be flexible and not be afraid to live by different rules.It made us take the path of transformation and made it possible to find a new, strong self. It spontaneously launched and rapidly accelerated long-term evolutionary processes.
A compelled personal transformation became both an internal and an external process. The process of searching for new meanings, self-exploration and internal dialogue became primary, the basic task and a way out of internal isolation even within the external global one.
Video project "2020" is an experiment at the intersection of genres. It attempts to understand and feel what is happening. Prima ballerina Diana Vishneva plunges into the exploration of new forms, uniting in one project a group of young professionals - choreographer Pavel Glukhov, director Katya Telegina and composer Anton Silaev. The project was started as a reflection on personal experiences associated with new reality and grew into a message to all meant for the end of this difficult year. For all participants, it became a creative laboratory and the first experience of such work. The project was initiated by the Context festival of Diana Vishneva, whose main mission is to support young Russian choreographers, artists and painters.
Podcast "In the Context of Time: 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.
Online meeting with Carolyn Carlson, October 10, 7 pm
Diana Vishneva, accomplished ballet dancer and artistic director of the "Context. Diana Vishneva" festival, and Carolyn Carlson, renowned choreographer who played an integral role in the development of French and Italian modern dance, met for an online dialogue. The two vibrant personalities discussed the poetic and the spiritual in choreography, the philosophy of dance, their shared work experience, and how their lives and the lives of the whole world have changed in recent times. Carolyn Carlson is the creator of more than 100 productions, many of which have become landmarks in dance history. She finds her inspiration in philosophy, art, writings, and nature, and she prefers to refer to her productions as "visual poetry" rather than "choreography." Carlson is always a performer – a co-creator whose interpretation is a primary expressive means for constructing the geometric drawing of dance. In 2013, Carolyn Carlson and Diana Vishneva joined forces to collaborate on the one-woman performance "Woman in a Room" for the ballerina's solo project "On the Edge." Carlson, inspired by the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and the poetry of Arseny Tarkovsky, created a melancholy tale about a woman in solitude, leafing through the pages of her life in an empty room, which Diana Vishneva embodied masterfully on stage. Besides being a dancer and choreographer, Carlson is also a poet and a calligrapher. It is no wonder that she is considered an artist who glorifies timeless womanhood and possesses a deep understanding of the female soul.
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