To mark twenty years of her creative career the internationally acclaimed ballerina Diana Vishneva is having a photo exhibition at the Mariinsky Theatre entitled Twenty, organised together with the Tatyana Parfionova Fashion House which is also twenty-years-old.
A prima ballerina with the Mariinsky Theatre, principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and a guest soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre, she first appeared at the Mariinsky Theatre on 16 February 1995 as Kitri in the ballet Don Quixote while still a pupil at the Vaganova Academy, and ever since then she has been a favourite with the public.
Vishneva has received a plethora of prestigious prizes and titles including the State Prize of the Russian Federation, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Best Dancer in Europe, the Divine prize, the Benois de la Danse, the Golden Sofit, Ballerina of the Decade and six Russian Golden Mask awards. Some of the present day’s most acclaimed choreographers have staged works for the dancer, among them John Neumeier, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Alexei Ratmansky and Carolyn Carlson. Since 2008 Vishneva has launched her own independent projects Beauty in Motion, Dialogues and On the Edge.
Diana Vishneva became a muse for the acclaimed designer Tatyana Parfionova, inspiring new artistic ideas and fashion collections. Twenty is an exhibition that allows us to see this well-loved ballerina not just in theatrical roles but also in the new role of a model. The art captured in the lens of the camera is very different to that which develops during a performance. The genre of stage photography reveals new shades of Vishneva’s talent. The classical tutus and transparent tunics of her heroines – Giselle, Juliet and Cinderella – are mixed with the refined, elegant and poetically imaginative costumes of Tatyana Parfionova.
Italian photographer Carlo Giorgi began to work in 1978 as an official photographer of the Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana, now known as PITTI IMMAGINE. For many years it has collaborated with the fashion magazines of such fashion houses as Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Ermenegildo Zegna and Yves Saint Laurent among others. In 1994 Carlo Giorgi began to work as a wedding photographer and has won particular popularity in this sphere. Today he is one of Italy’s most acclaimed photographers.
The TATYANA PARFIONOVA fashion house was established by the designer and artist Tatyana Parfionova in 1995, and has since become a symbol of St Petersburg. The collections produced by this fashion house are examples of intellectual and elegant fashion in Russia as well as being well perceived internationally.
The photo exhibition is taking place at two Mariinsky Theatre venues:
from 10 – 28 April 2015 in the dress circle foyer
of the Mariinsky Theatre (1 Theatre Square) and
from 29 April – 5 May in the audience foyer of the Mariinsky-II (29 Decembrists’ Street).
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