Intensive Summer Course in Choreography Disciplines 2024

The Bolshoi Ballet Academy Hosts Intensive Summer Course in Choreography Disciplines 2024

From August 12th till August 23rd, the Bolshoi Ballet Academy hosted the third annual Intensive Summer Course in Choreography Disciplines. This year, the project attracted about 200 participants of different age. They came to the Academy from professional ballet education institutions and children’s arts schools across Russia and a number of foreign countries.

The project has been expanding its geographical coverage, this time, the Academy welcomed students from Vladivostok, Kaliningrad, Kyzyl, Tula, Saint Petersburg, Perm, Voronezh, Tymen, Ekaterinburg, Ulan-Ude, Tomsk and Saratov, as well as Mexico, Brazil, UAE, Azerbaijan, Poland, USA, Japan, Germany and France.

For almost two full weeks, members of the Academy’s faculty trained the participants in classical, folk and historical dancing, polished their repertoire and put them through gymnastics training. Teachers, instructors and performers from a number of musical theaters in Moscow were invited to conduct master classes for the participants. For senior groups, master classes in classical dancing were given by Anastasia Goryacheva, Principal Dancer, Ballet Mistress and Teacher from the Bolshoi Theater, Zhanna Bogoroditskaya, Teacher from the Kremlin Ballet Theater and Nelly Kobakhidze, Principal Dancer from the Bolshoi Theater. Anton Domashev, a Ballet Teacher from the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater, taught acting techniques course. 

On their day off, the participants visited the Tsaritsyno Museum, where they had a chance to learn about the history of the construction of the estate during the reign on Catherine the Great and have a stroll in the picturesque park.

The second week of the course climaxed with a gala presenting numbers which the participants had been rehearsing with the teachers from the academy since their arrival. The gala had two parts, while the program included 71 numbers.

Here is a video highlighting the impressions of the participant and their recollections of the event finalizing their work this summer and preparing the students for a new academic year.