The Academic Kyiv Modern-ballet Theatre (, fully titled ''Communal facility 'Theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture "Academic Kyiv Modern-ballet Theatre''"') is a Ukrainian theatre of modern

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, which was designed as authorial, with the repertoire and artistic priorities being determined by the production of one, single choreographer. This theatre seeks to create an artistic laboratory of modern dancing with its daring experiments, with the original, unconventional interpretations of world-famous theatrical plots, and with the renovation and enrichment of the form and language of modern dancing. It performs on a tour quite a lot, both in Ukraine and abroad. The founder and the head ballet master of the Theatre is

Radu Poklitaru Radu Poklitaru (born 1972 in Chișinău, Moldova) – choreographer-director working in Ukraine and many other countries of the world, the Honoured Worker of Culture of Ukraine (2017), the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine winner (2016), ''The ...

— the Honoured Worker of Art of Ukraine, the winner of the

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of Ukraine, the People's Artist of Moldova.

History

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The history of ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' begins on December 19, 2005, with the first night of the production ''Le forze del destino'' (), commissioned by ''Volodymyr Filippov's Art Foundation'', which involved the main creative resources of the would-be theatre – choreographer

, scenographer Andriy Zlobin, costume artist Hanna Ipatieva, lighting producer Olena Antokhina, sound producer Oleksandr Kuriy, choreographer assistant Anatoliy Kozlov, and a number of performers who later became a part of the permanent company. The one-act production ''Le forze del destino'' reproduced the atmosphere of the old theatre of the 1930s – 1940s, with its diverse soft scenery; in which the new interpretation of the classical opera hits (the arrangement of Pavlo Shevchuk) was performed by Olena Hrebeniuk (

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), and the intense action was described in reviews as follows: "It is difficult to discern the precise contents of the production; the title, however, comes the closest to it. This collage of opera airs is "cemented" by the leit-motif of

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's opera '' La forza del destino'', which sounds each time in different modifications." The company ''Kyiv Modern-ballet Theatre'' Ltd. with Radu Poklitaru as its head was registered on July 18, 2006, and supported by the patron of art Volodymyr Filippov. In the course of all-Ukrainian casting, 16 young dancers were selected. The academic ballet education was not a necessary criterion for being admitted to the company; however, all the performers were professional modern dancers, knowledgeable about classical dancing and capable of conducting a classical lesson. The two-part ballet ''Carmen.TV'' to the music of

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was first presented on October 25, 2006, at the

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. The production was awarded two prizes of ''The Kyiv Pectoral'' contest – in the nominations ''The best production of the year'' and ''The best plastic interpretation of the production''. Olga Kondakova who played the part of Carmen was nominated for ''The best female performer''. In 2008 the Theatre was awarded ''The Kyiv Pectoral'' prize in the specially established nomination ''The event of the year'' for the selection of illustrious new productions: ''The Verona Myth: Shakespearements'' to the music of

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and the

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(2006), ''Bolero'' of

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(2007); ''Rain'' to the music of

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and folk music of the world (2007), and ''The Nutcracker'' of

(2007). In collaboration with the

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the ballet-triptych ''The Intersection'' to the music of

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was produced; the one-act ballet ''Hereven'' to the music of Vladimir Nikolaev is the co-production with the

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(both in 2012). The year of 2013 turned out to be critical for the company when the Theatre found itself on the verge of closing down. The ballet ''

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'' of

was thought to become the last production in the history of the Theatre. For financial reasons (exceedingly low salaries) 9 out of 21 performers of the company had to quit. They were replaced by new ones, and the whole repertoire had to be renewed almost from scratch. The productions were made owing to the patrons' support. The ballet ''Giselle'' was supported by Ludmyla Rusalina (the founder of the ''Petrus-Media'' holding), a number of projects were assisted by Volodymyr Borodiansky (the then Director General of the ''

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'', the head of ''StarLightMedia'' group); the direct participation of the businessman Andriy Demydov made the production of ''

'' possible. In March 2016 the productions of ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' (he ballets ''Swan Lake'', ''Women in D-Moll'', ''The Long Christmas Dinner'' and the ballet-triptych ''The Intersection'') directed by

were honoured with the

of Ukraine in the nomination ''Musical Art''. The application of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine specifically pointed out that ''The semantic polyphony of dancing created by the maestro reproduces the intense dynamics and the vocabulary of "encoded" metaphors and sophisticated symbols, highlighting the dramatic depths of existence in the first place''. From 2009 until 2017 the ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' company was incorporated into the

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, with most of the company's ballet productions being performed on its stage. On October 5, 2017, the communal enterprise ''Theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture "Kyiv Modern-ballet Theatre"'' was founded according to the decision of the

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as of June 22, No610/2772 ''On founding the theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture "Kyiv Modern-ballet Theatre" by separating it from the theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture ''

". It was specifically indicated that the theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture '' 'Kyiv Modern-ballet' Theatre'' is the legal successor of a part of property, rights and duties of the communal enterprise the theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture ''The Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth''. In November 2017 the Theatre was assigned the rank of ''academic'' by the order of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine No1176 ''On assigning the rank of 'academic' to the company of the communal enterprise "The theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture Kyiv Modern-ballet' Theatre"'' as of November 8. In February 2018 the Theatre was renamed the communal enterprise ''The theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture "The Academic Theatre 'Kyiv Modern-ballet' '' according to the decision of the

as of February 8 No11/4075 ''On renaming the communal enterprise "The theatrical and entertainment establishment of culture 'Kyiv Modern-ballet' Theatre''. The company numbers 23 performers. Four productions of ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' were shortlisted for the rating poll ''The Kyiv Score'', which promulgated the list of the best Ukrainian productions of the 2000s in January 2021. 15 Ukrainian drama critics took part in the poll and included the productions ''The Long Christmas Dinner'' (2014), ''Carmen. TV'' (2006), ''No 6 Ward'' in ''The Kyiv Score''.

The singularity of productions

; Plots

Theatre reviews describe

as a ''wizard of choreography, who inspires a new life in old fairy tales on the ballet stage – ''The Nutcracker'', ''The Little Prince'', ''Swan Lake''...''. Every new production of the company is based on the original interpretation of some apparently familiar story through the prism of Poklitaru's vision. Thus, only the characters' names are retained from the classical plot of

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's short novel ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the O ...

'' – a village girl Michaela becomes the central figure: this dreamy blond is captivated by the world of television serials (hence the title of the production ''Carmen. TV''); his ''Giselle is not a sweet country girl, but an unfortunate child of a big modern city''; the first episode of ''Swan Lake'' begins with the murderous shooting of a swan family and the subsequent care of the rescued cygnet by the infernal Lord Rotbar; the story of the ''Nutcracker'' is not focused on a liitle daughhter of wealthy parents – it centers round a teenager, a backfisch who has to go begging in the cold, snow-covered streets of a big city and then has a wonderful dream, falling asleep in the open. The company has no ''inaccessible plots for the ballet''; Poklitaru translates into the language of plastic arts

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's '' The Mysterious Story of Benjamin Button'' (''Up the River''); he combines, daringly, the story of ''

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'' by

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with

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's early music аnd Ukrainian

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performed by Maria Pylypchak; he tells Pushkin's story '' The Queen of Spades'' using the music of

, only not the expected one of the opera of the same name, but his

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and Sixth Symphonies. The productions are exciting, up-to-date, ironic and, at times, comic, even bordering on mockery (''In Pivo Veritas''). ; Artistic interpretation The artistic images of the ballets ''Carmen. TV'', ''Shakespearements'', ''Rain'' and ''Underground'' were developed by the scenic artist Hanna Ipatieva, a graduate of the

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(the class of Professor Mykola Storozhenko). Hanna's scenery for ''Giselle'' is inspired by the prints of graphic works (Mykola Honcharov's) as the imagery language for theatrical costumes. The scenography (''Carmen. TV'', ''Shakespearements'', ''Underground'') is created by Andriy Zlobin, the Honoured Worker of Arts of Ukraine, a graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Arts (the class of Eugene Lysyk)]. The scenic interpretation of productions is done in modern style (for instance, the action of the ballet ''Giselle'' is transferred to dilapidated slums of a present-day megapolis). The scenic artist Oleksandr Druhanov used the engravings of

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in the scenery of the ballet-triptych ''The Intersection'' (2012) and brought the 3D-animation to the stage. The permanent sound producer of all projects of the Theatre is Oleksandr Kuriy. In 2014, the costume artist Dmytro Kuriata joined the producing group in the ballets ''Women in D-Moll'', ''The Long Christmas Dinner'' (both in 2014), ''Up the River'' (2016), ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (2018), ''Viy'' (2019), ''The Little Prince'' (2020), and ''The Queen of Spades'' (2021). Since 2019, Olga Nikitina has been the art director of video projections; she developed the 3D mapping for the ballets ''Viy'' (2019) and ''The Little Prince'' (2020) and the continuum of ''added reality'' for ''The Queen of Spades'' project (2021), similar to the ''replenished reality'' and ''hybrid reality''. ; Music Scene from the ballet Nine Rendezvous

The musical component of productions has a wide range from canonical ballet scores (''

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'' of

, ''

'' of

, ''

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'' of

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and others), to authorial musical compilations (''Two for the Seesaw '' to the music of

and

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, ''The Little Prince'' to the music of

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and Ukrainian

, ''In pivo veritas'' to the

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and the music of Renaissance, ''The Queen of Spades'' to the music of

and the Sixth symphonies of

, etc) and original musical compositions (the ballet ''Viy'' includes the recording of Oleksandr Rodin's opus performed by the

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). Radu Poklitaru puts it like this, ''...in most cases, my choreography is based on the musical material which is generally referred to as "classical music". It can be modern academic classical music, or the Baroque music, or the music of some earlier times. But, in each case, it is classical, even if I sometimes resort to bardic songs and folklore – these are the three foundations for my entire choreography''. The history of ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' registers a few productions the music for which was written specially. Those include the one-act ballet ''Hereven'' to the music of Vladimir Nikolaiev (co-production with the

, 2012) and the ballet-triptych ''The Intersection'' to the music of

(co-production with the

). Maestro Skoryk himself was the conductor of his work during the performances of ''The Intersection''. The two-act ballet ''Viy'' (2019) to the music of the Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Rodin also belongs here. ; Choreography ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' is the authorial theatre whose repertoire comprises, by and large, the original productions of its founder Radu Poklitaru, which have become the most valuable possession of the theatre, received prestigious rewards and got the recognition of both experts and spectators. Additionally, ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' is the platform for the artistic quest of young Ukrainian choreographers who are ballet dancers at the same time. The latter produced, at different times, one-act ballets ''The Spectre of the Rose'' (2014) and ''The Seasons'' (2014) by Oleksandr Rodin directed by Oleksiy Busko; ''The Second Floor'' to the music of J.Black, N.Frahm and G.Santaolalla directed by Anatoliy Vodzianskiy (2016); ''Variations of Life'' to the music of

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, S. Anderson and

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, directed by Anna Herus (2017). There are also the productions of Anastasiya Kharchenko, Olena Dolgikh, Olersandr Manshylin, Volodymyr Mitiev, Viktoria Tolstova, Ruslan Baranov, Petro Naku, Vladyslav Detiuchenko and Kateryna Kurman. The repertoire of the Theatre comprises one-act ballets produced by its leading performer Artem Shoshin ''Closer than Love'' to the music of

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(2015), ''Running Through Life'' to the music of

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, Max Richter (2016), ''Lovebirds'' to the music of

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and

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(2019) and the mono-ballet of the leading dancer of the Theatre Illia Myroshnychenko ''A Tree Cannot Run Away'' to the music of

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and

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. llia Myroshnychenko and Kateryna Kuznetsova together produced the anti-utopian ballet ''1984. Different'' to the music of

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and

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based on

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's novel ''

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'' (2020). The repertoire includes the divertissements of modern choreography (''Con tutti i strumenti'') in which Radu Poklitaru's experimental miniatures and the début choreographic productions of the company members are performed; this contributes to the high reputation of ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' as a leading centre for the development of modern choreography in Ukraine.

Tours and festivals

Since the first days of its existence ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' has actively participated in various festivals and contests both in Ukraine and abroad. The Theatre is a permanent participant of the biggest theatrical festivals: ''Time to Love Dances'' (

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), Bienala Teatrului «Eugène Ionesco» – BITEI, the International Festival of Culture and Dancing (

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), the International Theatre Festival FITO (

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), the International Festival ''The Ballet Summer in Bolshoi'' (

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), the International Festival of Modern Choreography in Vitebsk (IFMC) (

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), The International Festival-Contest of Choreographic Art (

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). The Theatre does not only go on tour to cities and towns of

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, it is frequently invited for active collaboration by foreign representative agencies (for over nine years, the Theatre has collaborated with MTSM.B.V Music Theatre Stage Management owing to whose assistance the KMB productions are presented in the countries of

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). Throughout the years of its existence the Theatre has represented Ukraine's art on tours in

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, etc. The tour schedule of 2019 only included

Odesa Odesa, also spelled Odessa, is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern ...

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

Mykolaiv Mykolaiv ( ), also known as Nikolaev ( ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and a hromada (municipality) in southern Ukraine. Mykolaiv is the Administrative centre, administrative center of Mykolaiv Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) and Myk ...

Kherson Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ...

Poltava Poltava (, ; , ) is a city located on the Vorskla, Vorskla River in Central Ukraine, Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Po ...

Sumy Sumy (, , ) is a city in northeastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Sumy Oblast. The city is situated on the banks of the Psel (river), Psel River and has a population of making it the 23rd-largest in the country. The city ...

Vinnytsia Vinnytsia ( ; , ) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It serves as the administrative centre, administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast. It is the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. It also s ...

Khmelnytsky Khmelnytskyi (, ) is a city in western Ukraine. Located on the Southern Bug, it serves as the administrative centre of Khmelnytskyi Oblast as well as Khmelnytskyi Raion within the oblast. With a population of Khmelnytskyi is the second-largest ...

Berdiansk Berdiansk or Berdyansk (, ; , ) is a port city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, south-eastern Ukraine. It is on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, which is connected to the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Berdiansk Raion. The c ...

Mariupol Mariupol is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius, Kalmius River. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the coun ...

Kramatorsk Kramatorsk (, ; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Kramatorsk Raion in Donetsk Oblast of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Prior to 2020, Kramatorsk was a city of oblast significance. Since October 2014, Kramatorsk has been the ...

Sievierodonetsk Sievierodonetsk or Severodonetsk, officially since 2024 Siverskodonetsk, is a city in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is located to the northeast of the left bank of the Donets river and approximately to the northwest from the administrati ...

Dnipro Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( ; , ), also known as Krivoy Rog ( ), is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropo ...

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia ...

Cherkasy Cherkasy (, ) is a city in central Ukraine. Cherkasy serves as the administrative centre of Cherkasy Oblast as well as Cherkasy Raion within the oblast. The city has a population of Cherkasy is the cultural, educational and industrial centre ...

. The Theatre showed its productions on the stages of Salle Métropole (

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), Théâtre du Léman (

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), Theater de Korenbeurs (

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), Theater Veluvine (

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), Theater Singer (

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), Theater De Hofnar (

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), Theater Voorhuys (Berstadt), Cultuur-En Congrescentrum Van (

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), Schouwburg (

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), ZINiN (

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), Cultura Ede (Molenstraat), Posthuis Theater (

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), Stadsgehoorzaal ( Кampen). The Theatre participates in the traditional festival ''The Summer in Art Nouveau Style'' which is held in

on the stage of the

Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater The Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre () is the oldest theatre in Odesa, Ukraine. The Theatre and the Potemkin Stairs are the most famous edifices in Odesa. The first opera house was opened in 1810 and destroyed by fire in 1873. T ...

. The first festival was organized in 2016 for the Theatre's tenth anniversary, the seventh took place in 2021. The ''Kyiv Modern-ballet'' Theatre answered the lockdown restrictions of the pandemic period with the online production of ''The Little Prince'', the first performance of which on October 21, 2020 was watched by over 17 thousand people. On New Year Eve, December 31, 2020, the Theatre presented the online version of the ballet ''The Nutcracker'', which was broadcast from the October Palace in

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

People of the theatre

; Management *

– the founder and chief ballet master * Volodymyr Melenchukov – executive and art director (since January 2018) ; Choreographers * Vladyslav Detiuchenko * Kateryna Kurman * Illia Miroshnychenko * Artem Shoshin ; Performers ; ''Leading performers'' * Anastasiia Baird (since 2020) * Mishel Fondiu (since 2009) * Dmytro Kondratiuk (since 2006) * Kateryna Kurman (since 2008) ; ''Soloists'' * Polina Hrinina * Sofiia Huseva * Oleksandr Pavluchenko * Serhii Shcherbinenko * Kseniia Yakushenko ; ''Performers'' * Hennadii Baronin * Yuliia Chovhan * Hanna Karnaukh * Tetiana Kuruohlu * Artem Kuruohlu * Polina Lukanska * Nikita Shershnov * Daria Shynkaruk * Oleksandra Stoliar * Anatolii Vodzianskyi * Ivan Zaiets * Dmytro Zavada ; In collaboration with the Theatre ; ''Composers'' * Vladimir Nikolayev * Oleksandr Rodin *

; ''Artists'' * Hanna Ipatieva – costume artist * Mykola Honcharov – costume print artist * Oleksandr Druhanov – costume artist, scenographer * Viktor Zadvorniy – hair stylist * Аndriy Zlobin – scenographer * Dmytro Kuriata – costume artist * Kateryna Mankovska – costume artist, scenographer * Olga Nikitina – art-director, video-designer * Marianne Hollenstein (

) – scenographer

Repertoire

* Opera-ballet ''«Le forze del destino»'' to the music of

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Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was ''Mefistofele''. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretto, libretti ar ...

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (, , 9October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano ...

Alfredo Catalani Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas '' Loreley'' (1890) and '' La Wally'' (1892). ''La Wally'' was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catala ...

(

), 2005 * Two-part ballet ''Carmen.TV'' to the

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

(Radu Poklitaru), 2006 * Two-act ballet ''Romeo and Juliet'' (Shakespeareriments) to the music of

and the

, based on

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plays Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * P ...

(Radu Poklitaru), 2007 * One-act ballet ''Rain'' to the music of

and folk music of the world (Radu Poklitaru), 2007 * One-act ballet ''

'' of

(Radu Poklitaru), 2007 * Two-act ballet ''

The Nutcracker ''The Nutcracker'' (, ), Opus number, Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a '; ) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll. Th ...

'' of

(Radu Poklitaru), 2007 * One-act ballet ''Underground'' to the music of

(Radu Poklitaru), 2008 * One-act ballet ''Ward No. 6'' to the music of

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(Radu Poklitaru), 2008 * One-act ballet ''Two for the Seesaw '' to the music of

and

based on

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's play of the same name (Radu Poklitaru), 2009 * One-act ballet ''Quartet-à-tête'' to the music of Ad Maas (Radu Poklitaru), 2010 * Divertissement of modern choreography ''Con tutti i strumenti'' (Radu Poklitaru and the performers of the company), 2010 * One-act ballet ''In pivo veritas'' to the Celtic folk music and the

(Radu Poklitaru), 2011 * The ballet-triptych ''The Intersection'' to the music of

(Radu Poklitaru. Co-production with the

), 2012 * One-act ballet ''Hereven'' to the music of Volodymyr Nikolaiev (Radu Poklitaru. Co-production with the

), 2012 * Two-act ballet ''

'' of

(Radu Poklitaru), 2013 * One-act ballet ''Seasons'' by Oleksandr Rodin (Oleksiy Busko), 2013 * One-act ballet ''Women in D-Moll'' to the music of

(Radu Poklitaru), 2014 * One-act ballet ''The Spectre of the Rose'' to the original music of Oleksandr Rodin, a re-interpretation of

Michel Fokine Michael Fokine ( – 22 August 1942) was a Russian choreographer and dancer. Career Early years Fokine was born in Saint Petersburg to a prosperous merchant and at the age of 9 was accepted into the Saint Petersburg Imperial Ballet Sch ...

's ballet '' Le Spectre de la rose'' to the music of

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produced in 1911 and based on the poem ''Le Spectre de la Rose'' by

Théophile Gautier Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...

(Oleksiy Busko), 2014 * One-act ballet ''The Long Christmas Dinner'' to the music of

, based on

Thornton Wilder Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey'' and for the plays ''Our Town'' and ''The Skin of Our Teeth'', and a U. ...

play Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * P ...

(Radu Poklitaru), 2014 * One-act ballet ''Closer than Love'' to the music of

(Artem Shoshin), 2015 * One-act ballet ''Running Through Life'' to the music of

, Max Richter (Artem Shoshin), 2016 * Two-act ballet ''

'' of

(Radu Poklitaru), 2016 (The project was carried out with the support of the patron of arts Ludmyla Rusalina. Sponsor General: STATUS) * One-act ballet ''Up the River'' to the music of Oleksandr Rodin, based on

's '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (Radu Poklitaru), 2017 * Two-act ballet '' The Sleeping Beauty'' of

, based on the fairy-tale by

Giambattista Basile Giambattista Basile ( – 23 February 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. His collections include the oldest recorded forms of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. He is chiefly remembered for writi ...

(Radu Poklitaru), 2018 (The project was carried out with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine) * Monoballet ''A Tree Cannot Run Away'' to the music of

(Illia Miroshnichenko), 2018 * One-act ballet ''Lovebirds'' to the music of

and

(Artem Shoshin), 2019 * Two-act ballet ''Viy'' of Oleksandr Rodin, based on

Mykola Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works " The Nose", " Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospek ...

's of the same name (Radu Poklitaru), 2019 (The project was carried out with the support of the Department of Culture of the

Kyiv City State Administration Kyiv City State Administration (, commonly abbreviated as KMDA ) is the national-level branch of the Government of Ukraine that administers Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The current Head of the Kyiv City State Administration is Vitali Klitschko; ...

) * Anti-utopia ballet ''1984. Different'' to the music of

and

based on

's novel ''

'' (Illia Miroshnichenko, Kateryna Kuznetsova), 2020 * Two-act ballet ''The Little Prince'' to the music of

and Ukrainian

performed by Maria Pylypchak, based on the

tale Tale may refer to: * Narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether non-fictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fa ...

(Radu Poklitaru), 2020 (The project was carried out with the support of the

Ukrainian Cultural Foundation Ukrainian Cultural Foundation (UCF, ) is a state agency of Ukraine, established in 2017, in order to promote the development of national culture and art in the country, provide favourable conditions for the development of the intellectual potentia ...

and the Department of Culture of the

) * One-act ballet ''Nine Rendezvous'' to the music of

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for Piano solo, solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown ...

(Radu Poklitaru), 2021 (The project was carried out with the support of the patron of arts Volodymyr Filippov) * Two-act ballet ''The Queen of Spades'' to the music of

(the

and Sixth Symphonies) based on

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...

's short novel of the same name (Radu Poklitaru), 2021 (The project was carried out with the support of the

and the Department of Culture of the

) * One-act ballet ''Tomorrow'' to the music of

(Radu Poklitaru), 2023 * One-act ballet ''DiscrimiNATION'' to the music of

and

Valentyn Silvestrov Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov (; born 30 September 1937) is a Ukrainian composer and pianist, who plays and writes contemporary classical music. Biography Valentyn Vasylyovych Silvestrov was born on 30 September 1937 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, th ...

(Radu Poklitaru), 2023 (The project was carried out with the support of the

) * One-act ballet ''One Minute Before Christmas'' to the music of

and

Carol of the Bells "Carol of the Bells" is a popular Christmas carol, which is based on the Ukrainian New Year's song " Shchedryk". The music for the carol comes from the song written by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in or before 1916; the English-la ...

(Serhii Kon), 2023

Awards and acknowledgement

Literature

* Елена Узун. Свободный танец Раду Поклитару. / Elena Uzun. The Free Dance of Radu Poklitaru. —

Chișinău Chișinău ( , , ; formerly known as Kishinev) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Moldova, largest city of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial centre, and is located in the middle of the coun ...

: «Elan INC» (типографія «Elan Poligraf»), 2012. — 158 p. — ISBN 978-9975-4251-2-4

References

External links

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