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All modern choreography is one huge challenge to the established norms and techniques of dance, formed in the distant past. Strict requirements for performance are swept aside, and dancers are armed only with the ability to feel and hear music, and the desire to show the viewer their experiences. What styles are included in modern choreography, where can you attend classes for adults, and how much can training for beginners in Moscow centers and studios cost?

Style Features

The founders and inspired personalities who gave rise to modern choreography were Mary Wigman (a student of Emile Jacques-Dalcroze) and Isadora Duncan. They considered freedom from conventions, established requirements for technique and ballet movements to be the main thread in the dance. Year after year, they combined ballet, yoga, characteristic ethnic elements, work with light and fabric in dance.

Some of the most popular representatives of modern choreography are:

  • Contemporary dance ("contempo" in dance slang) is not exactly a dance, but rather a small theatrical performance in which the main instrument of the dancer is free movement. Contempo is characterized by the involvement of scenery in the dance, sweeping acrobatic stunts or support, it is not strictly a pair dance.

  • Jazz modern combines completely different, at first glance, styles: ballet, hip-hop and jazz itself. It is not enough technically well to perform a bunch of movements with smooth and plastic transitions, it is necessary to pass the idea of ​​your act through the prism of your feelings, to show your emotions and experiences to the viewer.

Modern choreography may seem strange and very difficult, requiring great physical preparation for execution, but leaves no one indifferent.

How are the lessons going?

Classes are held three to four times a week. It will be useful for those whose weekdays are filled with work to study the schedule and choose the most suitable option for training. Before making a final choice in favor of a particular school, it is also necessary to study the reviews of other students.

Clothing for classes

Tight-fitting tracksuits, ballet flats or sneakers are well suited for classes. The fabric should absorb moisture well and not hamper your movements during both warm-up and acrobatic stunts.

Prices for classes in studios and schools in Moscow

The cost of one lesson ranges from 275 to 600 rubles. Dance studios offer the service of buying a subscription for four (usually eight) classes, costing from 2400 to 3000 rubles.

It is quite difficult to give an exact definition of what modern choreography is. A number of areas fall under this category at once: contemporary, modern jazz, contact improvisation and a whole list of refined styles. Dances in modern choreography differ from others in that they are based on a harmonious combination of complex sports elements and an aesthetic component.

Classes in modern choreography: features

Since there is no general definition of modern choreography as a type of dance, it is impossible to determine the exact date of its origin. The direction, as a rule, includes dance techniques of the XX-beginning of the XXI centuries. For example, a style such as modern jazz originated in the early 20th century in the United States. And the creation of countermeporari was timed to the 60s of the XX century. Contemporary choreography in Moscow includes various directions and has been taught for a long time.

For dances united by one era, one common feature is characteristic: a demonstration of the capabilities of the body with a special, barely perceptible desire to "tell the world your story." Modern choreography training allows you to show what is happening with your soul, without clamping yourself into some kind of strict framework and limitations. If improvisation and experimentation are close to you, modern dances will appeal to you.

Studio of modern choreography Trix Family: professionalism and hospitality

Immerse yourself in the wonderful world of dancing now. Only with school of modern choreography At Trix Family, you can count on benefits such as:

  • the opportunity to participate in concerts, filming video clips, competitions;
  • location modern choreography studios just 1 minute from the subway;
  • the professionalism of the coaches, many of whom have achieved the status of champions;
  • individual approach and warm friendly atmosphere;
  • The first lesson is absolutely free.

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In the dance studio "Moscow Ballet Club" groups of modern choreography work. The children's curriculum includes:

  • Work on general physical form. For dancing, it is important to have a good preparation. Modern choreography is characterized by various jumping movements, somersaults, handstands, lifts, etc.
  • Classic exercises at the machine. Work at the machine is aimed at strengthening the muscles and joints of the arms, legs, back, and cervical region. The machine contributes to the formation of posture, improving coordination, balance. These basic exercises should be mastered by any dancer and used regularly.
  • Stretching (exercises for stretching). Stretching is more or less relevant for dancers. This is the work and development of the muscular apparatus, joints, tendons, the alternation of tension and relaxation in the muscles. All layers of muscles work here, including the deepest ones, and therefore, muscle mass gets stronger, but does not build up, as in sports. Plasticity and grace are developed.
  • Studying the basics of dance movements, combinations and connections, improvisational elements, work on musicality, rhythm.

Classes are aimed at getting acquainted with the basics of dance, with its culture. We teach you to express yourself through movement, to feel the music and to control your body. Having received basic skills, children and teenagers will try themselves in modern directions, participate in productions and perform on stage, dance at competitions and festivals, win victories, grow and develop.

The Moscow Ballet Club employs excellent teachers with specialized education and work experience. It is important for us to find an approach to every little dancer, to instill love and desire to train and learn, to reveal their potential. Coaches have pedagogical methods, they will become not only good mentors, but also true friends for your children.

Veronica Guru, 30 years old

What gave me training at the "National Academy of Arts" as a teacher-choreographer: new knowledge - YES, no doubt. Different styles of dance, that's for sure. Folk dance was like shock therapy for me. Let me explain a little, I am a contemporary, I dance contemporary, jazz, modern, earlier hip-hop. Therefore, folk dance was a discovery for me)) but it turns out there is also improvisation in folk dance !!))
There are also wonderful teachers, masters of their craft, creative and talented people. Alina Venediktova is a treasure trove of knowledge and an endless stream of creativity. After graduation, I continue to go to her classes. And I often see my classmates there. Which is also a big plus. Because we had a wonderful group, and we continue to communicate, and often create together, make common productions. Thanks to the academy for extraordinary talented like-minded friends with whom I want to create and feed each other with various crazy ideas, make dreams come true. I fondly remember this year, when I ended up there, I had a feeling that I was exactly where I needed to be, here and now.
What else, a very responsive administration, can always enter into the position of a student, take into account various nuances and force majeure. Very kind, sincere people.
And, of course, a state diploma. sample. This is the first thing they asked me when applying for a job. I work in a secondary school, a teacher of additional education. Speaking in Russian, I conduct dance clubs for children of different ages.
If you urgently need to get a diploma, then this is the shortest term that exists in Moscow.
From experience, I can say that dance became my profession of the year, very little, if there was a second year, I would gladly continue my studies. But I am already learning all the time, already in other programs, at master classes, in the process of work. You need to be able to let the teacher go, and they will go on a free voyage, fill their own bumps))) I sum up !!! I felt good and at peace there.

Maria Egorova, 29 years old

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience! I value and cherish every hour spent in Duncan. This is a time of discovery, development, professional growth.

An amazing team of professional choreographers has gathered here. Such different and bright, unique personalities, masters of their craft, devoted to the art of dance!

Andrey is a ballroom dance teacher - clear, consistent, erudite. Professional giving very specific and detailed explanations. Very consistently built, broad program.

Evgenia is a jazz-modern teacher - a bright, energetic, fast moving stream, strong lively plasticity. A professional who engages, infects, falls in love with dance.

Anika is a hip-hop teacher - charisma, fire and professionalism. As soon as Anika enters the hall, everything changes - she begins to live, move, glow. Even if there were no forces, she knows how to turn on a heavy-duty motor. And you are delighted, amazed and infected by the dance!

Alexey is a jazz-modern teacher. Professional, thin, bright, creative. It's a choreographer! A special feeling, even a vision of music and dance pattern! Beauty, humor, lightness, and a lively dance that is born before your eyes. It's a miracle!

Alina is a teacher of contemporary, classical, folk dance, composition, course leader. Incomparable Alina! A man of amazing depth. A professional who fills movement with thought and gives birth to dance from inner meaning. Teaches you to feel yourself and each other, space and time, Word and Sound.
Opens the universe of dance with all its stars and treasures. Well, it gives specifically a huge number of tools for the dancer and choreographer. Very attentive to everyone. Develops everyone. It forces you to overcome your boundaries and opportunities, to expand your limits. Professional growth is provided regardless of the level. Even if you have already become a pro, you still have to plow and plow, grow and develop!

Thanks to our dear organizers-administrators - Anna and Chin Gizu! They are our support and connection with reality))) Human, sensitive and attentive. They create a homely warm atmosphere, you immediately feel like a part of a big wonderful family!

And of course .... students! This is humor, laughter, sparkling fun, support and support, advice, help, sympathy, boiling life and emotions. Each of those who was next to a real star and a man! Thank you guys. You were and are amazing!

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Yulia Fionova, 28 years old

I want to say a huge thank you to the Duncan school for the opportunity to become a choreographer in 9 months!!! Unfortunately, my studies have come to an end... But I hope that I will continue to be friends with this school and visit the destinations I love. This school has wonderful teachers, real professionals who are passionate about their work! Classes are very competently built - 90 min. - this is the real time in which you are engaged (and even more!). Warming up, learning chords, repetition, learning new movements, stretching, plus all this with perfectly selected music. A very consistent approach to classes, a lot of attention to the safety of performing movements. You really get pleasure from classes, a boost of energy and good mood for the whole day, and the result is visible after a few classes. The highest level of teaching, an individual approach to each student, exactingness, so you need to give everything 100%. For me, now DUNCAN is a family, an atmosphere of warmth and comfort. Here I was surrounded by wonderful people, very positive and kind. Very nice to be within the walls of this place! Here I was finally able to really open up, try myself in those dance directions in which I could not even imagine seeing myself. Here I found really real friends who are burning with a common cause - dance. Now I'm dancing, which means I'm living...!!

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Ekaterina Nikulnikova, 25 years

I have been studying at Duncan Academy since February 2015. I have been looking for a place for a long time where I could get additional education, but where I didn’t have to study for 3 years in correspondence, as many universities offer. It seems to me that this is a great opportunity not only to get a diploma after studying for 9 months, but also to practically try different dance styles. And not only try, but really learn how to apply them in choreography. We are talking about such areas as classical dance, folk dance, jazz modern, contemporary dance, street dance (hip-hop, jazz-funk, house, etc.), ballroom dancing, and also the art of a ballet master, where they give very good theoretical background. Speaking about the teachers, I would like to emphasize their professionalism and ability to present the material. Even if you have never danced ballroom (like me, for example), you can easily not only learn, but also put on dance numbers. The lessons thoroughly understand all the techniques, tricks and techniques. You will be told how to teach this or that subject not only to adults, but also to children. In addition, to study in such a team among such interesting and creative people is still a great pleasure!

BALLET OR MODERN DANCE?

We are talking about modern dance with the director of the Ballet Moscow Theater Elena Tupyseva

Maria Shramova

Already in August, the festival of modern dance OPEN LOOK gathers the best international dancers in St. Petersburg to show the most interesting things happening in the world of modern choreography. The festival brings both performances by foreign choreographers, local Russian troupes from Kazan and Chelyabinsk, as well as troupes of the most successful Russian institutions specializing in modern dance, one of which will be the Ballet Moscow Theater. In our interview, Elena Tupyseva, director of the Ballet Moscow, talks about the peculiarities of the existence of modern dance in Russia and the organization of the work of dance companies.

excode: During the 6 years of your management of the theatre, the performance level has grown significantly. How did you manage to bring the theater to today's level?

E.T.: The new team came to the theater "Ballet Moscow" in June 2012. There is nothing complicated here. In order to get out of the crisis, any organization needs a clear program and priorities. If a mission is formulated and there are priorities that it follows, then results and successes appear. To do this, it was necessary, on the one hand, to gradually develop the creative potential of the troupe, on the other hand, to gradually invite interesting choreographers, both Russian and foreign. But, the main thing is a formulated plan and strict adherence to this plan.

We had a task to become a professional theater in the field of modern choreography. To do this, we took certain steps: we invited various teachers to conduct master classes, specialists and choreographers to the troupe. For example, in April of this year, for three weeks in a row, our artists took part in master classes in eider (and improvisational technique created by Ohad Naharin, choreographer and artistic director of the Israeli company Batsheva Dance Company, editorial note). We got such a unique opportunity thanks to the Festival " Golden Mask" and educational program Theater Institute".

excode: How feasible is cooperation with foreign directors now? Considering the political situation, and even if not considering what difficulties arise?

E.T.: Cooperation is possible, there is absolutely no doubt about it. In my opinion, the main difficulty is economic, because the exchange rate has grown very much over the past six years, almost twice, so this requires more accurate financial planning. And from a political point of view, this is an ambiguous story. Yes, maybe not everyone agrees to come to Russia to work, but so far we have not encountered a refusal for political reasons. In general, no one interferes in our artistic policy, and during these six years the choreographers have never refused our offer because “we are from Russia”.
It has become more difficult because it has become more expensive. But in order to remain a successful Moscow theater, we must create an interesting product. In general, the laws of the ballet and dance genre are as follows: if we want to be successful and visible, we need to be integrated into the international dance scene. This is one of the success factors of any dance or ballet theatre. To release only a national product, I think, is wrong. If you look at the European infrastructure, I do not know a single European theater that would work only at the expense of its internal national resources, both performing and staging.

excode: Your theater is known for having a modern dance troupe and a ballet troupe. How is ballet being transformed into "modern dance" today?

E.T.: Modern dance is the one that was formed in the 20th century, starting from Isadora Duncan, etc. Modern dance came to Russia in the early 90s. As for ballet, it is a separate genre, with its own school, with its own canons, with its own aesthetics, with its own market of choreographers, performers, and so on. These are two different genres, which sometimes overlap to some extent. Ballet in the second half of the 20th century is also actively engaged in modern choreography, the search for a new language, but taking into account other performing abilities of artists. After all, a modern ballet dancer dances ballet. It's pointe shoes, a different body, and a different choreography. In modern dance, there is also an established infrastructure with its own education and so on.

Photographer Vasil Yaroshevich

excode: Modern ballet - what is it like?

E.T.: When we think of ballet, we think of classic productions like Swan Lake.
We all need to be more educated, start to understand these two areas and not confuse them. In Europe, they are not confused: there are state theaters that are engaged in ballet, for example, in Dresden there is a ballet troupe - the Semper Ballet. The repertoire of this theater consists of works by contemporary choreographers: William Forsythe,David Dawson, Jiri Kiliana and so on, and that's ballet. And if you take the work of, for example, the German choreographer Constance Makras, then this is no longer ballet, this is modern dance. Modern ballet is looking for its own language, it relies on a different aesthetics of movement. Yes, he uses work on the floor, yes, he has become more horizontal, unlike the classical one, there are no such canons. There are also plot ballets, such as the choreographer of the Zurich ballet Christian Spuk. But in general, when you ask a choreographer: “What do you put on: ballet, modern dance, neoclassical?”, they often answer: “I do ballet or dance today.” They do not really like to determine what kind of dance they should be attributed to.

In our theater "Ballet Moscow" There are two troupes: a ballet troupe and a modern dance troupe. Two troupes exist absolutely separately from each other, their working day even begins in different halls, but the audience that comes to the "Ballet Moscow" watches the performances of both troupes. If you ask (and we conducted such polls): "What did you watch: a ballet troupe or a modern troupe?", every second person will answer incorrectly. Therefore, I think that it is necessary to make interesting performances, and then, you can call them performances "modern choreography", who needs to understand in more detail whether it is modern dance or ballet - he will figure it out.

excode: Is your theater still a "theater" or a "troupe"? Are you more about "dance" or "theater"?

E.T.: For me, these are all synonyms. We are a theater and the result of our work is performances. They can be both with a plot and based on some literary work, for example, "Cafe Idiot" Sasha Pepelyaev, "Kreutzer Sonata" Canadian choreographer Robert Binet, "In standby Godot" Anastasia Kadruleva and Artem Ignatiev, and plotless.

Photographer Vasil Yaroshevich

excode: Your theater is known for the fact that two troupes coexist in it: ballet and modern dance. How do you balance classic and innovative?

E.T.: It depends on what to invest in the concept of "classic". We are not a museum theater and we are not engaged in the ballet of the 19th century; we do not have such a mission and task. Theater "Ballet Moscow" was founded in 1989, it has no task to deal with the past. He has a task to deal with the present and the future. Accordingly, there are historical scenes in Russia: the Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky, which are engaged in museum art, but at the same time, they clearly must create a new product. And we are a young theater and should deal exclusively with the present and the future. As for the music, yes, we use classical music, for example, children's ballet "Thumbelina" created for music Tchaikovsky "Seasons", but at the same time, modern samples are integrated into this music. We have ballet to music John Adams, is a composer of the second half of the 20th century, but nevertheless, this music has already become a classic of the 20th century. Our ballet troupe artists are all graduates of ballet academies, but in addition to the classical baggage that they have gained in the academies, they are also familiar with modern ballet techniques. We had a performance in the repertoire "Sacred spring" in the modern troupe. Stravinsky- it's already a classic. Sometimes modern choreographers take classical music, if it inspires them, then why not?

excode: How difficult is it to regularly give performances without a venue? Does the fact that you do not have your own space affect the performances themselves?

E.T.: Our performances can be seen at three venues in Moscow - this is the Center. Sun. Meyerhold, the ZIL Cultural Center and the small stage of the Musical Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. As a rule, the performance is played on the site where it was released. The absence of a scene has practically no effect on the artistic process and the final result.

excode: Are you planning to expand the venues or experiment with locations? As many do now: use some kind of urban or industrial space.

E.T.: As one-time projects, rather. Repertory performances with a certain adaptation can be shown in non-theater spaces. We work a lot with this, every year we perform as part of the project "Mask in the City". We danced at the Kursk railway station, in the atrium of the Bolshevik business center, in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. We participated in such projects as "Night in the Metro", "Night of Museums" and so on. Such projects become a prominent part of our work.

Photographer Vasil Yaroshevich

excode: Are these performances attracting a new audience?

E.T.:- I don’t know how “new” the viewer will be, but if we talk about the viewer who is already similar to our target audience, and who learns about the theater through these projects, then yes, of course. And we, of course, work a lot in open areas, every year we show our best performances on the Stage on the Water at VDNKh, and recently took part in the Tolstoy Weekend festival at Yasnaya Polyana. The festival takes place in the open air in the forest on the territory of the Yasnaya Polyana museum. We annually perform in the Hermitage Garden at the bottom of the city in a special program on the open stage, recently we danced on the open stage in Izmailovsky Park.

excode: Why is the OPEN LOOK festival interesting for you?

E.T.: In my opinion, OPEN LOOK currently the largest contemporary dance festival in Russia. Therefore, it is important for us to be on the poster of the festival, to bring our new works that we made in Moscow. Our theater is coming to this festival for the third year in a row and it is very important for us.

excode: That is, your performances are more of a festival format than a repertoire format?

E.T.: Well no. The fact is that tour activity in Russia is so organized that the opportunity to go to another city is to perform at the festival, such is the infrastructure of the Russian dance market, unlike Europe. Because there, in addition to festivals, there is an opportunity to organize tours, when the same performance travels to several cities along the chain. In Russia, this is less developed, it is connected with finances and other factors, so we are a repertory theater, unlike European dance companies, we are just an exception to the rule, we are a repertory dance theater. Our artists do not dance one or two performances, but dance from four to six, and performances by different choreographers. We exist according to the laws of the Russian repertory theater, we show the same performance every month for several seasons. We have performances that we released 5 years ago, which are still in the repertoire. And festivals are a great opportunity to acquaint residents of other cities with our performances.